Jade Jones

After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distraught. But now, looking back on it, I think it was the biggest blessing. I was going into every fight thinking I have to win because I am Olympic champion and putting too much pressure on myself. I lost my hunger and stopped enjoying my taekwondo.

English Athlete

Nicole Fosse

I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn't develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.

American Actress

Penelope Cruz

Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?

Spanish Actress

Cameron Britton

If it's a 50-seat theater, I am neurotic about whether I'm doing an honest performance. Sometimes I walk away happy enough with it. You know, it can always be better, but sometimes I'll walk away distraught, feeling like I missed the pulse of the character that evening.

American Actor

Spike Milligan

You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.

Irish Comedian

Cass McCombs

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

American Musician

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

Even if you look at the planet, and you think it's easy to be distraught and depressed, common goodness - human goodness - is very much alive, and it needs to thrive even more amid the chaos.

Canadian First Lady

Rhianna Pratchett

Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring humans and warriors rather than cute animals.

English Designer

James Haven

I know what it's like to feel distraught as I am an incredibly sensitive guy and feel for anything and everyone in pain, particularly my own sister.

Nell Scovell

I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.

American Journalist

Describes extreme emotions, stronger than just 'worried' or 'upset'.

Emotional Intensity

Usually refers to an immediate and intense emotional reaction to a situation.

Short-Term Reaction

Use 'distraught' for serious problems, not trivial matters.

Not for Mild Issues

Often used when someone is grieving a loss or dealing with disappointment.

Associated with Loss

Implies a deeper, often overwhelming, level of sadness or worry.

More than Sadness

Indicates a very personal, deep emotional reaction to an event.

Personal Reaction

 And I'm thinking, how do you calm down? But I don't think he's having a heart attack. And so fortunately for us, this doctor was at the end of the shift. So this new doctor comes in, he sees us clearly distraught, with a husband who can't breath out of his nose.

Talithia Williams: Own...

 and that you heard the news as we all did today, and deeply distraught and know the tragic loss that it is to the world. But I just wondered if you wanted to share any additional thoughts, because we know that you heard that news

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 When the sun god heard, he was distraught. He hid inside a deer carcass until a hungry vulture came swooping down, then hopped onto its back and rode to the mountain kingdom where the moon goddess now lived with the vulture king.

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 I’ve felt distraught at times. But I get up every single day, and I’m inspired by the people I work with. And I feel that I have a platform, and I feel privileged to be part of this. When this began, my husband said to me --

Maria Van Kerkhove: How...

 take a look at this image a little girl broken arm do you feel compassionate towards her I bet you do now I want you to take a look at this image do you feel compassionate towards him well clearly he's distraught

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 coming back from such a devastating loss. Time, frankly, would have been better spent in figuring out how to help me instead. And then there was that moment where I had to console someone, very distraught,

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 Isis blew it up and my whole family was was distraught It was as if my grandfather had died again these photos give a lot of insight into

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 and every single project that we set up in Africa failed. And I was distraught. I thought, age 21, that we Italians were good people

Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...

 the truck driver is shaken up but willing to help with the investigation any way he can is distraught he thinks he saw you know

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 it just makes my day to see them flying free and that's why I'm so distraught that this magnificence is going to be

Distraught