The experiment involved participants watching emotionally distressing video footage.

It was emotionally distressing and it goes straight to the throat.

These workplaces are unregulated, intimidating and emotionally distressing.

Hair loss can be emotionally distressing.

When some emotionally distressing event is found to set off sleep problems, patients and sometimes their families are referred for counseling.

You wonder at times if anything is straightforward in Bob's world: does he find popping down the shops for a loaf of bread an emotionally distressing experience?

Several former intelligence officials described the attack as emotionally distressing for the spy agency.

It is a personal account of her emotionally distressing childhood.

This is emotionally distressing for some people.

The son of a nightwatchman, his relationship with his father was emotionally distressing.