What is the definition of Mental Anguish?
When connected with a physical injury, includes both the resultant mental sensation of spasm and also the accompanying feelings of distress, fright, and anxiety. As an part of damages implies a relatively illustrious degree of mental aching and distress; it is more than mere disappointment, anger, worry, resentment, or confusion, although it may include all of these, and it includes mental sensation of dull pain resulting from such painful emotion as grief, severe disappointment, indignation, wounded pride, shame, despair, and/or public humiliation. In other connections, and as a ground for DIVORCE or for compensable damages or an element of damages, it includes the mental suffering resulting from the excitation of the more poignant and bumpy emotions, such as grief, severe disappointment, indignation, wounded pride, shame, public humiliation, despair, etc.