University of Denver. Let's talk. The Professional Psychology Clinic (PPC) is the training center for the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver. The PPC has provided low cost, high quality psychological services to Denver's community for over 30 years.
upset - thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; troops fleeing in broken ranks; a confused mass of papers on the desk; the small disordered room; with everything so upset
The noun anguish refers to severe physical or emotional pain or distress. A trip to the dentist might cause a cavity-prone person a lot of anguish. We get this word from a Latin word, angustus, which literally meant narrow but developed the figurative sense of distressed â think of being choked off or forced into a small space. In modern times anguish has been in the English with the parallel and related meanings of physical torment and emotional suffering.. Both kinds might be experienced at the hands of a dentist who likes to make his patients squirm in agony.