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Emotional distress falls under pain and suffering damages, but it is not the same as pain and suffering. Emotional distress most often occurs when the victim of an accident witnesses someone else suffer a traumatic injury or death, or they themselves suffer a traumatic injury. If a doctor has diagnosed emotional distress as part of …