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Suffering is the pain, hurt, inconvenience, embarrassment, and inability to perform normal activities because of injury, for which a person injured by another person�s negligence or wrongdoing may recover general damages. It is usually in the combination of pain and suffering.�

• Cases such as this case from Missouri, explain that �pain and suffering, both physical and mental, that warrant an award of general damages, refers to the pain, discomfort, inconvenience, anguish, and emotional trauma that accompanies an injury.�
• Similarly, this case from California, explains that �pain and�suffering is a unitary concept that encompasses physical pain and various forms of mental anguish and emotional distress.�
• In the context of mental health, this case from Illinois, explains that to prove�a person is �suffering,� as would support an order for involuntary administration of psychotropic medication, the State must show that they are experiencing physical pain or emotional distress.