"emotional discomfort" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to an uncomfortable or unpleasant feeling that is caused by emotions or feelings. One can use this phrase to describe a wide range of emotions, such as anxiety, sadness, guilt, shame, or anger. It can also be used to describe a general sense of uneasiness or unease without specifying a particular emotion. Example: "At the funeral, Sarah felt a deep sense of emotional discomfort as she mourned the loss of her beloved grandmother."
The physical and emotional discomfort for women is significantly lessened, she said; in fact, most women don't feel anything.
Walling left the Yankees' Class AAA team in May to deal with emotional discomfort he felt whenever there were runners on base.
But now, unbelievably, these powerful medications are prescribed for conditions as varied as very mild mood disorders, everyday anxiety, insomnia and even mild emotional discomfort.
At Memory Lane, if someone says their mum is coming, the staff try, in quite a Freudian way, to find out where the emotional discomfort lies.
MICHAEL CERA, who just turned 19 years old but whose peach-fuzz cheeks and deceptively innocent eyes make him seem at least five years younger, loves emotional discomfort: his, yours and especially that of an unsuspecting audience.
It may bruise a few egos, and inflame a few tempers, but the emotional discomfort it causes the billionaire prophets of Silicon Valley will be well worth the result.
For Alistair Spalding, artistic director of the Sadler's Wells Theatre, where nude dancers in blonde wigs recently hurled themselves through the auditorium every night, you can recognise any truly innovative art because it prompts some sort of emotional discomfort.
Such emotional discomfort often leads them to avoid the family in crisis; as Dr. Sourkes put it, "They might, for instance, make sure they're never in a situation where they have to talk to the family directly".
And despite the physical and emotional discomfort of these encounters — and the draining nature of the work — all the performers interviewed said they were often exhilarated by their daily shifts (some of which are now as short as an hour 15 minutes, because of several fainting episodes).
During the experience of chronic sorrow, people feel emotional discomfort, and hopelessness.
