It's an expression of physical discomfort and psychic distress.

But as bad as his physical injuries were, they paled beside his psychic distress.

If a circuit showed signs of malfunction or sensors detected severe psychic distress, the recorder would shut down.

Phil Baker claims that the text's "associative monologue about psychic distress still shows an unmistakable relationship to the talking cure".

But deluxe trucks still attract those who feel no financial or psychic distress over $3-a-gallon gasoline.

Many will suffer psychic distress.

LEAD: Mirages may be only illusions, yet they can cause real psychic distress to those who behold them and believe in them.

So when someone who has built his daily life around the high that can come at the end of a workout feels an illness coming on, the psychic distress mounts.

It describes a form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change, such as mining or climate change.

I always used to be able to escape mental pain and psychic distress in my sleep, but that's no good this time.