Mental anguish
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
When connected with a physical in-j'ury, this term includes both the resultant mental sensation of pain and also the accompanying feelings of distress, fright, and anxiety.
See Rnilway Co. v. Corley (Text) 26 S. W. 904; Railway Co. v. Miller, 25 Tex. Civ. App. 460, 61 S. W. 978; Keyes v. Railway Co.., 36 Minn. 290, 30 N. W. 888.
In other connections, and as a ground for damages or an element of damages, it includes the mental suffering resulting from the excitation of the more poignant and painful emotions, such as grief, severe disappointment, indignation, wounded pride, shame, public humiliation, despnir, etc.,