To file a lawsuit, you generally need to show “damage” of some sort. First you prove that you were harmed by someone else, and that they should be held responsible. Then you attempt to set a monetary value on the harm you have sustained (compensatory damages), and in some cases, to show that the defendant should pay an additional amount as punishment (punitive damages).
As we all know, others can harm us both physically and emotionally; and sometimes, the latter can be worse than the former.
Can you, therefore, sue for emotional distress? The answer is yes. However, such lawsuits can be tricky.
If you are suing only for emotional distress, you will probably have an uphill battle. First of all, recoverable damages in such cases are usually relatively low. Because bogus claims in this area are common–and difficult to prove–courts are generally suspicious of “stand alone” emotional distress claims. This doesn’t make them impossible–only difficult.
The situation becomes easier when physical harm or illness has been caused. When a visible physical impairment can be shown to be the direct result of someone else’s action or product, it is much easier to then convince the court that emotional distress has been caused as an outgrowth. Also, you may be able to demonstrate, and collect damages for, loss of earnings or earnings capacity as well as for physical pain and suffering.
What’s the bottom line? It’s not easy to build a lawsuit on a purely subjective feeling of being upset; but especially in egregious cases, it can sometimes be done.
If you feel you have sustained a level of emotional distress to file suit, by all means consult an attorney. He or she will be able to advise you on whether or not your suit has a reasonable chance of success.
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I was a victim of domestic violence for 17 years from an abusive husband. He was both physically and emotionally violent. I have been divorced since september of 2005. However I am suffering brain, neck and back injuries that are worsening with age and mentally and emotionally I am not the same. The man is a repeated offender for over 20 years in and out of prison for various violent and federal crimes including a murder charge before i met him back in the seventies. Today we have a 22 and 12 year old son together and I cant work due to my injuries and horrible ptsd symptoms and depression. He presently is in prison for a very violent crime commited against another human being( he couldn’t reach me i ran to arizona from pennsylvannia.) However, he is due to get out on parole in auguest of 2011. Can someone please help me or inform me of what i can do . thank you
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I was raised in an abusive home. There was both alcohol abuse, and physical abuse. I moved out at 17 to escape the mess. Police were called many time, many by me. And i have long lasting memories and even dreams of staying up at night watching my drunk father sleep, to make sure he didnt throw up and choke to death on it. Not only was i hit many time, but i saw even more brutal vilonce against other people. Even watched the swat team take my father outta the house because he was threatening suicide if my mother left. Sense i have moved out i have been diagnosed with post tramatic stress disorder, and also been prescribed anti anxiety medication. I was on no medications before i left the home. I have reoccuring dreams of his drunken outbursts, and even dreams of his death due to alcohol. Its scary becaus ei want nothing to do with my dad due to the physical and mental abuse he put me through. But i cant get him outta my head. Im going to sue for emotional distress because of the medications i have been prescirbed i believe due to the past abuse. I constantly have anxious feeling. Especially when im doing things, that he wouldnt apporve of if i was still living at home. I walk around with the feeling that a paino is going to fall on my head. This man has done a number to the way i think. How i act, and how i respond to situations. Wish me luck everyone. I think sueing him, will be showing him that the actions he has done to me will not go unpunished…idk how to go about this and i cant afford a lawyer, but im gonna do it
I understand your feelings on this, I too was abused emotionally, mentally and physically. I of course cannot tell you what to do, however keep in mind on your endeavor to sue your father that this will most likely make him angry and you will again endure some sort emotional problem that will stem from this. Whether these problems will be him actually trying to get back at you for suing him or your anxiety and PTSD causing you more problems than usual, because of the worry. Just keep in mind that not only might you not win a lawsuit, but the long term effects of trying may not be worth the whole thing.
That’s the attitude I’m trying to maintain also. My older brother sexually molested me from the time i was six years old until i was roughly 10. I am now 20 and have since been to several therapists and met with several social workers to help me get over it. Of coarse trauma like this in a young persons life isn’t something that can be forgotten. Many details have been blacked out but there are some details that just don’t go away. It’s been 14 years since that ordeal and i feel now that he needs to know I will not be taken advantage of any longer.
What have you done so far? I am sort of in the same situation. Email sharp0395078@gmail.com
I was not paid money owed me because the employer said he did not like my behavior.
What happen this employer owed me $400 and he only wrote a check for $200. When I confronted him and the others that was involved about it he refused to corrected it. He said I did not meet the requirements which I did. When I went to the bank to cash the check he had called and had a stop payment on the check. He said “I stopped payment because I did not like your behavior when I confronted the responsible party. He said I did it while a person was coming in to fill out an application and I cost them money.” How rediculous was that?
This business is bogus, unfair, has a high turnover, conjouring, misleading, and liars.
Do anyone have any suggestions on what to do?
f***ing sue his a**
I’m Looking for help! This just happened to me yesterday. how did you handle your problem and what results did you get ?
I am so stressed out about a remodel in my home. Custom Cabinets started the job and yet have’nt finished it.It’s going on three years. I still have’nt been able to put my door knobs on and he took my cabinet door to the lazysusan to redo and never came back. The inside of all cabinets still need to be filled and the outside of the cabinets were stained, but were’nt laquered with the gloss.About four of the legs are cracked and still need to be changed out.My backsplash has’nt been installed,so the outlets are’nt in.This has been very difficult and very stressful.I can go on and on. Not only I have a small claims case,but I have a emotional stress case. Or do I?
Yuki, I hear you and feel you pain. I’m tired of having contractors not perform to spec and then not backing up their work. I spent two years building a high end deck (I have the skills, but not the time other than nights and weekends) our of cedar and teak with custom posts and metal railings. The railing is one thing I jobbed out to a welder and he then had it powder coated by another company. The railing started to rust and peel within a week. I called the welder and he told me to call the powder coater. I told him I hired him, paid him and I have no connection with the powder coater so, no, you take care of it. I was so emotionally distraught that I could not deal with the issue for a year. I don’t even want to use my deck. Last night, I finally got to where I could call the welder again and he refused to take care of it and just kept telling me that it is the powder coater that messed up not him and to call him. I am physically ill. I worked so hard to build a beautiful deck and now this jerk has ruined it for me. It was to be where I can come home after a long day at work, crack a beer and sit and relax. Now I cannot even look at it, much less sit on it. Even if it does get taken care of, the memory had ruined it for me.
I want to sue him for ten million for emotional distress and teach him and every other contractor that it is more than just time and materials. When they do not deliver as promised and do not stand behind their work, they are messing with the dreams of homeowners and for that they should pay.
This person should not have a house. I feel sorry for the contractors going over to the house and working hard and Yuki complaining omg.:(!!!! Get a life.
:):)
Get an apartment and give the house to this person here who deserves it lol.
JK.
Have a grt day.
Hi, I am being sued for $150,000 under entirely false accusations, can I countersue for defamation of character?
And emotional distress?
You must have done something wrong. You need to open your eye these days. People are sue happy. Make sure you got insurance for your home and belongings.. Have a grt day. Take care.
I was recently on vacation in the us, in the state of Texas, when I finished my shopping and was ready to hit the road back to Mexico I stopped at the malls dumpster and threw a bag full of cardboard and bags from all m shopping, all of the sudden I had a mall cop hand cuffing me and hurting me in front of my 5 yr old 10 yr old and wife, I now know it’s illegal dumping, but I’m a tourist so I didn’t know that was illegal, when he found out I was a national he treated me very bad and hurt my hands and back, basically treated me like a felon, the. The actual cops showed up and gave me a ticket, I was very cooperative at all times and tried reazonig with the mall cop but not only he said it’d be awful consecuences for my record he also scared my family and yelled at them to stay awAy if they didn’t want to get involved as well, now I have to show up at the court of another country and a city that is 24 hrs away from home, I feel like he treated me poorly and with a lot of racism. Can I sue the mall or the mall cop about this situation?
I was sexually molested for a year by my mothers boyfriend. When I came out and told he admitted to it and did go to jail. As he was there over the course of a year I was put into 4 suicide hospitals for attempts because of all the pain, harassment at school about it, and the compete discuses of myself. I have no trust for anyone in my life because of this man. Do I have a case that would be worth my trouble?
I won a breach of contract judgement. Then the defendant refused to pay and filed bankruptcy. He was just discharged and it was questionable. He 3 wks later magically now has $300,000 in earned commissions, that will grow to $540,000 in 4years. This is as a result of the contract he was found to be In beach of before filing bankruptcy and is still in (new) breach of.
This has devastated my family. How can he get off Scot free without paying what he owes. And how can he continue this breach by not paying me to this day.to the point of ruin and suicidal thoughts.
I am beyond distraught. His breach and negligent behavior has affected me and my family financially and emotionally and my health.
Can he be sued for the emotional damages his conduct has caused and continues to?
In 2008 my father supposedly committed suicide by shooting himself. He was living with his wife’s brother (who is a billionaire) in the mountains of Virginia. My dad was helping this man, my step-moms brother (We’ll call him Steve) build a 4 million dollar home. My dad USED to be a depressed alcoholic because my mom had died from cancer in 1997, and he had definitely been through his share of bull crap… But, at this point in his life, he seemed to me (and I knew him better than anyone) to be the happiest he had been in years. He had a job doing what he loved, living in the mountains (he loved the outdoors), he had taken control of his drinking problem and finally found a good woman to love.
…I spent many-a-weekend in the mountains with him and my step-moms family. Steve seemed to really like me and my dad. He would buy us whatever we needed and just simply took good care of us and seemed to appreciate my dads help with building his new home. Though, there was always something about Steve that did not sit right with me. He kind of had a sneaky, creepy side of him that I felt like I would never understand (could have been the fact that he’s a billionaire)…. but yet he was always nice to me.
….The weekend of Mothers Day in 2008, I spent with my dad because it’s never an easy weekend for us. We talked a lot & just sat around the house because it was raining. I loved my dad to death, but I never really showed it… That was the first day in 10 years I hugged him, told him I appreciated everything he had ever done for me and told him I loved him. We made plans for the next weekend and I went back to my house in Richmond.
….The next day (Monday) I got a very strange call from Steve. He said my dad was drinking again and I needed to come get him or he was going to fire him from the house job… he just kept going on and on talking bad about my dad. This was totally out of the blue, it almost sounded like he was drunk. I hung up the phone crying but went about my day. The NEXT day (Tuesday) I called my dad and asked if everything was okay… He seemed to be fine, did not sound like he had been drinking at all (Trust me, I could ALWAYS tell) and we discussed our plans for the coming weekend once again. ….A few hours later I was told by my brother that my dad had died. I immediately called my step-mom to find out what happened. She claims that she was on the porch while my dad was in bed. She heard a gunshot and went in the room to find he had shot himself. That’s the only story I have ever heard and it really doesn’t make sense to me being that I had JUST talked to my dad a few hours before this and he was fine.
…Since that day Steve has NEVER spoken to me. He didn’t go to the funeral… when I went to the house where my dad died to pick up some belongings Steve never spoke to me. I’ve e-mailed him and he doesn’t reply… it’s just weird to me. I called to get the autopsy report and they claimed that my dads “family” requested they didn’t investigate or test for drugs or anything. They automatically ruled it as a suicide and that was it. My family thinks I’m crazy and I don’t ever mention it anymore…. But I am losing my mind dwelling over this because I know I’m right. Steve has money and power over this small mountain town and I believe it was him that murdered my dad… he used my dads history of depression and alcohol as a cover-up. What do I do? I’m only 22 and don’t have enough money for a good lawyer or private investigator. Please help me find justice.
omg, i am so sorry for your loss. and i completely beleive what you are saying. i hope you ended up finding answers to this sad story. i always felt like most suicide stories arent true.
I was sexually molested by my mothers boyfriend when I was 6 years old. I told someone and the man went to jail for a short amount of time. Ever since then I have been in and out of hospitals. I am not able to go places on my own or get a job. I have PTSD and I am afraid to be around groups of people.
I am now 22 years old no money, no job and no place to call home is there anything I can do?
I am Mexican. I live in Tijuana. Me and my husband went to the mall in San Diego. Suddenly this tree falls over our car. 911 came take me to hospital because I had concussions and pieces of glasses in my face. We didn’t have car insurance as tourist we are we didn’t know. The problem it’s hospital bill is over 25,000. We can’t pay ,we try to talk to Westfield mall because the tree was in their property but they said that was an act of God because that day was windy and also was raining and now we are so worry and not clue what to do also this happened in January 2009 I have only 3 more months to do something against them.
Hi! My name is trina I filled a complaint against two females for theft they posted a nude picture of me on a social network site I wanna know if I can sue for emotional distress
I don’t think you can sue for emotional distress but you can sue for defamation and probably other things…I know in porn everyone has to sign a consent form so if they posted something without your written consent you could probably get them for that, but I’m no legal expert. You could probably find out online.
My parents divorced when I was about 2 years old, he remarried a short time later to the woman he was having an affair with. Ever since I can remember my stepmother was emotionally abusive towards my brothers and me. Off and on through my growing years he would be in and out of our lives. When he and his wife were around us there was always something done or said by her towards us that would cause emotional pain. When my father passed away she omitted our names from the obituary and made it know we were not welcome to go to the funeral. Even though I’m now 52 years of age I would like to know if it’s possible to sue her for emotional distress. She lives in the State of MA.
recently i found out my wife was having an affair at work so when i confronted her i hit her she send me to jail and has an injuction agains me i can only see our 2 kids twice a week for the next 6 months this has affected me at work ,my personal life and more important the lifre of my kids my oldes is 4 years onld and seems deppress ever since i want to take a case agains her the company she works for since they were aware of the affair at work her and this man were having sexual relations at work and the manager didn’t do anything about it a report was file but they were permited to continue working together i want to know what are the chances to take a case agains this company wish by the way is huge ,my life is in ruins i’ve lost so much weight ever since this happend i was 190 pounds and now am 155 pounds i don’t sleep at night and i don’t even know were my children are living if some one can help me i will apreciated!!
I’m having issues with a company I ordered a product from a few weeks back. They messed up my order initially but gave me a coupon to make up for it. The coupon was more than the product so the product ended up not costing me anything. However I wanted it for a Halloween costume, and by that time it was a week away, so I paid extra for the fastest shipping they had, 3-5 (business) day delivery for $19.95, which would have gotten it to my house on Halloween day at the latest. After 9 business days, I still didn’t have it so I emailed to cancel the order, explaining the situation, including the initial mistake and coupon that came with it, but I didn’t receive a response. On the 11th business day after the order, my package arrived. I emailed again saying ignoring my email and sending my order a couple days later didn’t cut it, I didn’t want it anymore, I reiterated my first email, and said not only did I want my $19.95 back, but I wanted to return the item and be reimbursed for the cost of return. This time they responded saying I can return it but since I didn’t pay for the product itself, I couldn’t be refunded, and if I did return it I would have to pay for shipping and pay a 15% restocking fee. So I’ve been arguing with this person for 2 weeks, and I’ve caved a little, saying least I’ll take is the difference in what I paid for express shipping for regular shipping, which was $10. Now they are saying all they can do is give me that, minus the cost of the product since I didn’t pay for it, even though I’ve stated 4 separate times that it was free because of a mistake on their end. So I would only get $5 back. I’ve been super stressed out dealing with this because I don’t want the product but now I’m stuck with it either way, and I just want my money back. I feel for so little money I shouldn’t have to be getting this much trouble from them, but that I am entitled to a refund since they didn’t provide the service I paid for. I want to take it to small claims court for the amount charged, legal fees of going to court, and emotional distress. I know I can sue for the first two, but can I sue for emotional distress in this situation?
Deborah, The first and only thing that you should do is stop the payment through the charge or debit card company that you used to paid for it originally. They will get you back whatever you paid out because the company did not deliver as promised. Call them, and they can stop the payment to the company if it’s not too late.
I am 17 years old. My parents got divorced when I was about 3, and I lived with my dad for six years.(Until age 9) Then was taken by CYFD and sent to live with my mom and her husband. Her husband is emotionally, and verbally abusive. He was always extremely controlling of me, of who I can talk to, hang out with, where I can go, what I can do, until now. Now I am old enough to know that what he is doing is abuse. I have a few specific incidents documented which can prove my emotional distress:
1) When I was 14 (a freshman in high school) I threw a house party (with my mothers permission) and it got busted by cops, and she was blamed for buying the alcohol. Three days later, I was coming home from school and my flip flop broke, I continued to walk home on the burning asphalt. Once I got home I complained to my stepdad my feet hurt, he offered to give me a foot massage. I politely refused and jokingly said something about only asian ladies touching my feet. Next thing I knew he was laying in my bed(which he had never done before) and was massaging my feet, then my legs, then my thighs, then his fingers started sliding up my shorts. I took a (very shaky) picture of his fingers inches away from my shorts(they were short shorts) and ran away and called the police. CYFD investigated it and decided that since I had recently gotten in big trouble(the house party) I was just overexaggerating and trying to get out of it, regardless of the picture I took. Did he wait until after I got in a lot of trouble to do this because he knew no one would believe me? Was he smart enough to wait for that period of extreme vulnerability? I guess so, but now with everything else I can prove he’s done, and I finally have a few people on my side, I’m hoping this can be reinvestigated, or at least used against him as emotional distress when I sue.
2) I have a picture from August 3, 2011 at about 8:30 pm of my bedroom completely trashed – I was at work from 5-8:30 that day, I had left my bedroom in its regular state of being messy (I’m a teenager. We have messy rooms) to come home and find everything thrown off my bookshelf, books and pictures ripped, all my posters on my walls, also ripped, and my extremely heavy TV(too heavy for me to pick up) thrown on the floor.
3) Later that month, (August 2011), my stepdad kicked me out of the house for calling him a drunk bastard.(Did i forget to mention the drinking problem he has?) And when he did so, he screamed and cursed at me while I tried to pack my belongings as fast as possible. I had locked myself in my room while I tried to pack, and he banged and pounded on the door and screamed things like “You better hurry the fuck up!” (Not exactly a threat, but I still felt threatened). Although, I have no proof of this, my sister(age 9) and her friend(also 9) are witness’ to the abusive language he directed to me.
4)My last arguments involves mostly things which happened in the past (about 2004-2009). I used to complain to my friends mothers, and my neighbors about how irrational his punishments were. ( For example, If I left my shoes in the living room, he would throw them outside and let the dogs destroy them. Intentional destruction of property of a 9 year old girl? Abusive.)
-I was about 9 or 10 years old, my neighbor had a friend visiting from Carlsbad (she was also 9 or 10) and my mom said my neighbor, and her friend could spend the night at my house. My stepdad freaked out because we didn’t ask him and he screamed and cursed, and turned off all the electricity in the house. The visiting girl from Carlsbad witnessed it all, and we sent her home terrified. She never came back to visit my neighbor again. Although I would not use her as a witness, my neighbors mother seems like a fine and eligible witness.
These are just a few examples of the type of abuse I’ve endured throughout my childhood, directly caused by this man.
But looking at it in a legal battle, he can reply with all that I’ve done to wrong him, which include: forging checks(stealing money from him- happened over a year ago) and thats about it.
He tries to say that I threatened to physically harm him (he has no proof), and that I’ve caused him emotional distress because I stole money, and “lied” about him running his fingers up my thighs and under my shorts.
Please, let me know what you think. These are just a few examples of his abuse, but is it enough to sue?
20 years old and my parents divorced when I was 7. They were verbally and physically abusive to each other. I think that grew into my siblings and I, we repeated this behavior to each other A LOT. I was bullied in school while a different group outside of school would beat me up in my neighborhood. I told both my parents about the bullies but they both came to the conclusion that I was being over-dramatic and that I was actually being made fun of not beat up. When we moved my mom remarried to a guy from England when I was about 12 and he was cool at first but behind my moms back he was completely different. Always talking down to me and made me feel like shit constantly. He went through this phase this one month and decided to try hitting me think he gave up on that when he realized I wouldn’t change. I always told myself things could be way worse for me ex: I could be homeless, one of my parents could have died when when I was young, etc. and that usually got me through the day when I was young. When I became 15 saying those things just stopped working because I found out I had addictive behavior and was self destructive. When I turned 17 I started having irregular heartbeats but ignored them cause I was not sure what was happening by that. A few months before I turned 20 I had this severe chest pain (what I found out was a minor heart attack). I went to a medical cannabis doctor this year in CA to get a medical card. (I developed an addiction while in high-school and although I did not have friends I still managed to find a dealer because I was curious and I figured there was sure to be people who would want the money). He did my blood pressure and it was 140 over 90 three times in a row. He says it was stress although I didn’t tell him what could have been the cause of it when he asked. If I were to go to a psych ward or something I would feel like everyone in my life was right about me. If I continue to not seek help the consequences could be fatal. I would want enough money from my parents to afford psychological and physical help to get back on my feet and try to make something of myself (away from them). I am still living with them and currently they live in a million dollar house. They make me sick sometimes when I’m reminded about how “successful” they exactly are. It’s a horrible thing to say about them cause they raised me with the food, water, and shelter but they act like that’s enough when they say how ungrateful I am. I am surprised I haven’t done anything drastic with myself but I think it might be just a matter of time. I know it’s not normal for a regular person to be talking like so negative I am very aware of the condition I’m in and am not in denial about my state of mind any longer (thought because I was young that I was healthy). I want/need help but I’m not one to grab attention because I know to do so just means trouble. I don’t mean to sound so needy/whiney but I really need help. There are plenty of others with more severe problems but if there is anyway I could get away from the source of my problems so my health could just have a break I would want to know. If there is free hospital care that I could go to or some government money I could get I’d greatly appreciate any help if someone could help me through getting it. The last thing I would want to do is sue but I would do it if it came down to it. I have not gone to a hospital since that day with the cannabis doctor yet because I am actually fearful of my parents founding out about the cannabis. My hair has been starting to fall out more than it has been in the past and I have had 3 more heart attacks since the first one and they have been getting worse. I have been underweight all my life and currently weigh 100 lbs at age 20 and it is still dropping. Being a 5’9″ male with these conditions a kid could tell I wasn’t healthy.
Forgot to even ask if I would be able to sue AT ALL. I don’t know much about the law and it’s methods so if someone explain how suing for emotional distress works if I’d be able to sue and if not, tell me of another way I could possibly get help I’d really appreciate it.
My employer is constantly yelling and screaming at every employee in his office. He is a doctor and he is emotionally abusing me and all of my co workers. One day I was frightened for my life. He was so angry I thought he was going to leave the office come back with a gun and kill all of us. He screams at the nurse too. Can I file a lawsuit for emotional distress? When I get home I sometimes puke from the stress he causes me.
My husband and I were having marital issues and in June he informed me that he was moving out. We tried going to a couple of counseling sessions but after 2 of them he refused to go. I found out that starting in May he and a co worker started an emotional affair. On several occasions we argued about this girl and my husband promised to stop talking to her. He never did.
My husband started his move the night before my 8 year old was admitted to the hospital for a staph infection. Once I learned my son was being admitted I had my father go in my house and change locks and such so he could not take furniture without my agreement. Well Saturday morning he broken into my house through a window and took almost every piece of furniture.
Starting in June when I found out about this girl and the fact that he continued to have an emotional affair with her was absolutely heart breaking. I couldn’t handle the pain and my doctor put me on anti depressants and I missed a lot of work.
Can I sue him or this girl for lost wages, medical appointments and counseling appointments that I endured over the last 6 months?
I was recently married. I hired my caterer nearly 12 months prior to the wedding. I also gave her a deposit of $2800 in cash, and have the receipt. She gave me a menu to choose things from and we agreed on everything almost 8 months before the wedding. She told me the price pp would be 22.50, for 80 people. She also said staff would be an extra $750 and she said that was on the high side so there were no problems. She failed to inform me that I would be paying for other things like the appetizers, and coffee. She never mentioned that to me ever. All of our conversations were through email. We have no signed contract. She did not deliver what we agreed to. the food was not prepared on premise, and it wasn’t even close to the menu we picked. She brought baked ziti, and some other kind of pasta, and plain chicken patties and salad. Then she hands me a bill in the middle of my reception for another $1370! My MOH said just write her a check, don’t be upset you can handle her later. So I did. I was so upset! She tore down the reception beginning at 7pm all the seats and cloths were uncovered, and they sat in the back till 9pm. Two days after the wedding I wrote her an email and explained how I was upset and wanted to work something out. She said she was busy with other new brides, and deleted all my information, but she hoped I had a wonderful wedding and honeymoon, and that their would be no more emails, with a smiley face. I was infuriated, so I stopped payment on the check. She then wanted to talk with me, after she found that out almost a week later. Then we went back and forth about who did what, and didn’t do what. So, I told her to take me to court, but I would have to counter claim her because she ruined my wedding! She filed the papers, and then began to talk about me on her facebook page. “Oh this bridezilla is driving me to drink” “I am not violent, but this bridezilla from (the date of my wedding) makes me want to punch her in the nose” and many other things. I am not sure what I should do. I have the papers for the counter suit, but I don’t know what ordinances or statues she has violated. I feel ill every time I think about it. It makes me so sad that my wonderful day, has been compromised by this person. What should I do?
Hi…ummm, I am not fully knowledgable on to what fulfills the emotional distress lawsuit needs to make it in court…I need opinions on what to do and whether my life story will make it to become a lawsuit…well, my name is Christian Alvarado and currently 18 years old…I currently go to La Serna Hih School and continue to strive for above and beyond with my moderately to severe bilateral hearing loss..it’s been a hard journey for my family and I…I ask for no pity but just opinions for me so that there is justice and to rest my families souls to peace from anger and tears…I live with my 16 year old brother who is bright as can be and live with a mother who is very sick but continues to fight for my brother and I…she suffers from multiple health issues such as chronic pains, hernias, and battles an ever spreading cancer…I love her to death and want to move on in life knowing I did something to bring peace and an end to all this emotional misery…my father is a compulsive liar and only strives to reach the goals of to seein my family fall apart..he is he main reason why I write this..when i was younger, he tried to kill my mom with her own medications..abused her..everything you can imagine bad, he’s done it..my brother suffered as well with his twisted ways through physical and emotional trauma..he currently suffers from depression and PTSD symptoms…me on the other hand, I was 12 years old when he almost strangled me to death…literally…I have been severely abused and emotionally abused..the police took pictures of al my bruises for with evidence…even with that, he continually lied and still lives on without no justice being served…he supposed to pay child support, but lies about having a job..he works for tv production companies and makes lots of money..since he lied, he only has to pay 38$ for the support a month..how is that much money suppose to provide for a month?! I don’t know…there is much more to this…but to I’ve evidence of proof, I have gone to therapy intensely for 6 years and on depression medications…and I can’t even afford a lawyer to top it off with this hard life…so please any opinions would be a help towards a whole. We road in life. Thank you for your time. (:
I have a 6 month old son who was having health problems so we took him to the dr. there was one dr who everytime she talked to me she made me feel dumb. at one point she told me that i needed to stop bringing him into the hospital. so i requested a different dr. when i did this she called cps which resulted in my husband and i loosing my son for 2 months and nearly getting a divorce. cps dropped the case because i did what i had to do as a mother. is there anything i can do to make this dr learn from what she did. her anger with me cost me my lil boy for 2 months. I will never get that time back.
My son was diagnosed with Irritable Bowl Disease several years ago, but recently has gone to see a specialist that confirmed the family physicians diagnosis. The major problem is my son is now 16 years old and has suffered since he was in probably third grade with this issue. However, after diagnosis we gave the school a slip to allow my son to use the restroom whenever he needed to go and yet during middle school and high school it has been a battle for each teacher to get that he needs to go. He continues to be embarrassed by the teachers when asked questions and told you are missing so much work you cannot continue being gone for so long. My son has had to rearrange his schedule and happens to have ceramics first period which is usually the worst time for his IBS. However, I have not been contacted by her about this issue; instead she discussed his restroom breaks with him and he is again upset and doesn’t know what to do. One trigger of IBS is being nervous or upset. I have sat down with the middle school in the past and have spoke in depth to the school nurses, guidance counselors and still they make him feel ashamed. What can be done if anything. I am calling the teacher in the morning because she is flunking him because he is gone so much in the restroom, but he spends his extra period in her class. This class is full participation and I understand this. My problem is I just do not think children are heard and teachers feel that they know best. My son has continued to feel bad about himself because of his IBS he does not need a teacher helping him out. Another problem was he missed school with this problem a lot in middle school and he had forgotten his book he thought in a class room and his teacher happened to be standing near us when I asked if he had seen my sons book and the teacher said “no, he would have to come to class to have lost his book in his room” to my sons face. My son was devastated. Please let me know if you think there is anyway we can pursue something so that the future of other children or teens with IBS do not have to suffer the same fate as my child. He hates school and wishes it was over and these are suppose to be the best years of his life. It is sad when it is not the kids that make your child not want to go to school but the faculty.
My service provider issues me with a defective iphone. They need to send my unit to Apple and have it replaced it would take 30 days. They don’t offer sevice phones so for me to have service I need to have an extra phone, which I don’t. Can I ask them to temporarily suspend my sevice, to avoid charges, since I CAN’T use the services without the phone? And since I can potentially lose Clients/Business/Earnings within the 30 days of not having service, is that grounds for a lawsuit? thank you.
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I had relation with a girl for 6 months..and she was insisting of marrying her for first 4 months and even made me talked to her mom for marriage. She made me to decline good marriage proposals that time because of her emotional behaviour that time. she had been bugging me emotionally during that period as I was not interested much initially..because she had a relation with some guy in past, for two years and done things with him not allowed before marriage in our region.
She harrased me mentally and emotionally throughout and even hurt herself by making cuts on her skin to emotionally hurt me so that I talk to her and marry her Later I also wanted to marry her. But some time before she told she don’t want to marry ,reason withheld by her.
Kindly advise as case for causing me emotional stress over 6 months and wasting my time. I never met her but we talked on phone,texted and emailed. I also got fire from work due to Decreased work performance.
My mum and dad divorced when i was young, and a year or two after, my dad got married to someone who wasnt keen on me, she was pregnant with someone elses child and my dad took him on but my step mum had no intention of keeping me and my sister in her life. slowly but surely she got rid of everything we owned from my dads house. my mum was fed up but never had any ideas on how to improve the situation. my step mum used to abuse and blackmail me, including social, emotional and physical abuse, leaving me feeling self concious and anxious about everything. its been 8 years down the line now and my mum passed away a few years ago. my step mum has split all my family up and im not allowed to see my twoo little brothers, two little sisters, or my dad. i feel like i have lost both parents and i feel alone, she has ruined my life and taken over my brain, all i ever think about is how much hate i have for her.. i have no idea how to legally do something about this. PLEASE help, i have no-one!
i have lived with and took care of my aunt my entire life. She was 92 years old, so her time was limited at this point…. when she did pass, my siblings came into our home while I was at work, and took many things from the house, and made demands of how my home was going to be taken care of…. that ment putting me out of the house so they could sell it… my oldest brother is the one in control of the estate… not one of them have lived in this house for over thirty years… can they legally get away with this? is there anyway i can leagally stop them and make them give me all the stuff they took back…. i am diabetic, and am usually very controlled,
but the stress they are causing me has made my blood sugar levels jump…. my reading before this happen were 78-189, now they are 300-700 all from the stress they are putting me through… i also beleive my oldest brother caused this death…
HELP I can’t take it any more
My children’s father and I have shared parenting. In June 2011, he ordered the babysitter to not let me see the children and hid them in her basement. I was terrified, not knowing what was happening in the house and why my girls were being kept from me. An hour later a police officer showed up at my house and I found out the babysitter that I hired filed a trespassing report on me and I would be arrested if I set foot on the property. I was so upset I could barely breath. I couldn’t sleep or eat for days. I contacted the police and they said the couldnt do anything about custody. I hired an attorney and went to court to file for full custody. The babysitter never faced consequences. The damage of having my young girls hidden from me has been extremely emotionally tolling. The children’s father refuses to communicate on the issue and says he doesn’t need to telle why he ordered her to hide the children. I have been seeing two different councilors to help, along with meds to help me sleep. I keep having nightmares oft children being taken from me. What can I do? Please help.
I was on medication for depression last year that the doctor prescribed because i was having trouble sleeping. during the first few months i noticed i was not able to wake up until the late afternoon. well my child had school and missed a lot of days so i got a truancy case which i decided the effects of the medication were doing me more harm than good, so i stopped taking it. its almost the end of the next school year and her attendance has been good this year. but now all of a sudden im going back to court for stupid things like 2 late assignments. whats next ill be in jail because she didnt wear green on st. patricks day? what does it have to do with attendance?
I am 12 And my father has everyday made me cry And let my hand fall off by writing up to 1000 times to listen. Since I have ADD I am not that able to concentrate and focus. Everyday I cry myself to sleep. And when it turns to my mother, all he thinks about is seeing her naked or sex. I know ths because I have read their txt messages to eachother as proof. My mom has even sexted him with a bare butt, hers of course and I don’t have the proof becuase e gave me tbat phne and I erased it. I am not lying a all And if you would ho into my pares room there would b conoms, disgusting magizines, man thongs and lotz of ugly stuff noone wants to see. Wh should I do??????????
I have spoken to the Kentucky Bar Association & was denied help. the lawyer wouldn’t even listen to what I had to say & said he couldn’t give out free legal advice.
I just went through a bad break up with my Boyfriend I suffered physical abuse as well as emotional abuse.He took things from me such a diamond ring he gave me for valentine day of 2011.A watch he gave me valentine day of 2012.wouldnt pay the bills he left behind.Is there anyway i can su him at least for my jewelry?
I have a clingy step mother that hurts me from time to time, she tries to kill me and yet no one care to help me…..I’m afraid she’ll kill me me in my own home, I’m 22 and somehow she tricked me in having her my guardian till I’m 26. She wants my money that I earn, she doesn’t want me to move and yet I fear I’ll die in the house by her for she threat me twice niw that she’ll kill me…..help!!!
I was in a relationship with someone for a year. Found out I was being used for money the whole time, and being cheated on. I lost so much money during this relationship that I had to file bankruptcy and sell my house. The “person” I was seeing had a couple of friends attack me and take my cellphone. During the attack they said the person I was seeing never cared about me and, along with them, had laughed at text messages I had sent during the last year, including ones where I had talked about being sexually molested by my father. After this, I was not able to work for six weeks, attempted suicide twice, and was hospitalized at a suicide prevention center. I did manage to get my job back, but can seldom stay a full day. I don’t want to be around people anymore, can’t stay focused on anything, and can’t do much besides try to work and sleep the rest of the time. What can I do??
I have a question as to a ex girlfriend of mine has for seven yrs years lied cheated and caused me alot of emotional distress.She once called the cops on me from another stae with a new bf she lived with because i was so upset and she feared that i would harm myself and after being put in stony brook medical mental ward and cleared after evaluation,ima stuck with $3000 medical bill.After all this she begged for me back than againg did the same thing shes been diagnoised with bi polar disorder and also owes me another $ 500 on top in money ive lent,is there anything i can do
Hey im in a intensive outpatient program an after art therapy my cousiler asked me to come to his office. He then asked if he could search my perse? I let him shocked they actually thought I stole an I pad from a peer of mine. I dont know what to do about this and am hert. I know they didnt ask anyone else. What should I do? This is highly effecting my recovery….
I moved in with my boyfriend of 7 years almost two years ago. His place was somehat small and I have to sell everything I owned so that his place would not be crowded. Furniture, kitchen essentials, I mean everything, even some clothes.
He started drinking heavily and is very controlling (I am not allowed to have certain foods in the refriegerator that he doesn’t like). He doesn’t let me pay for any bills or rent (he says if i pay then I will have more of a say on what I can and can’t go at HIS house). With the excess drinking and violent temper comes giving his number to other women and late night text messages. (not his fault, it is the alochol, whatever!)
Point is, I have nothing save. No money because I have only been working part time at the Y as an after school counselor and I am a full time student. In the last week I have gone back to work full time, still no money saved.
I want to move out! I don’t have any family to turn to and he has ruined all of my friendships. Can I sue him for moving expenses since he made me sell everything I had to move in with him? Or am I stuck there in an emotional hell until I save to move out? I am not making a lot of money and it could take 3 months to save.
Is this out of the question? There has been physical abuse against me in the past where he was arrested and convicted.
My husband packed up and left me and my son in October 2011. He has not looked back since. He blames it all on our 16 year old son’s actions towards him, but while my son was in rehab my sons ex girlfriend and my husband started something. After my son was gone a week or so later she came to me and asked if it would be ok to stay with us for a few weeks because she was having issues with her Dad, my husband had already told her yes, and I did not see anything wrong with it at the time because she became like family when she was going out with my son. As time went on I started noticing things. They would sit in the same room and text one another (my husband and this child) He would yell at me while I would be putting laundry away that was clean if it required i go back towards her bedroom and his office that were across the hall from each other. He was staying in his office all the time. He was mean to me all the time. I saw him talking to her and flinging his chair back to the desk and i confronted him and he said no he wasnt. Then towards the end before i called and told her Dad to come pick his daughter up I had suspicions there was something between her and my husband, they started leaving together and not allowing me to go with them. I was always told I was imagining things and that there was nothing going on. Until I knew in my gut that it was happening. The school even got the police involved but as of yet nothing has come of that. She is now pregnant and has been living in his apartment with him. I have proof of this and will be using it when I get ready to divorce him. He still claims he has nothing to do with her. They share a bank account, she has a cell phone on his bill, they call each other all the time and have for a while now i have the logs when i was on his cell bill i could get them and print them. He acts like he wants to work things out with me but doesnt know how to. They are not even getting in trouble as they should. i know her mother is still looking to prosecute him for any reason she can find. I have been left to deal with everything from the bills to the house that is now in foreclosure because on 300 a week i could not pay the mortgage to my son who has been absolutely out of control and I am also working a 40 hour a week job to support me and my son. I have truly been mentally traumatized by all this that has happened due to this girl and my husband who is 50 by the way. i am sure this has been both of them. She gets on twitter and teets about everything until recently she has slowed down. They watch movies together cause she will post and he will tell me what he watched. They bought new furniture together and he told me he got it and she posted about spending $$ on new furniture. he said it was on craigs list but i am thinkin they got it new. who knows though. reqaurdless that was half the income tax money that she sis not deserve. we have been married 31 years. And he did this? How do you not have emotional scars from it? I need to know if i can sue her for emotioanl and financial destress? She is now 17 and living with my husband and we are still married. What do I do to get some stability and peace of mind back? Thanks for any answers I can get! Peggy
myself and a friend went to ask these contractors next door to us what the construstion was about and why we recieved no notice about it, we recieved a nice reply, but there were racial remarks the contractor made about the home owners. roughly 30 mins after we went round, there was banging on the window from the same contractor we spoke to, when we opened the door to find out what the banging was about we got allegations made against us for criminal damage to his van, (wingmirror came off) which neither myself or my freind had touched, he continued to give us threats of “doing our heads in” and smashing up our property. what can we do about him please?