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Nervous shock
Nervous shock is a term used in English law to denote psychiatric illness or injury caused to a person by perception of events caused by the negligence of another; for example, witnessing an injury caused to one's parents or spouse. To amount to "nervous shock", the psychiatric damage suffered by the claimant must extend beyond grief or emotional distress to a recognised mental illness, such as anxiety neurosis or reactive depression.
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