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distraught

If you are upset, you are distraught. If you want to explain why you are pulling your hair out, just utter "Leave me alone; I'm distraught" It'll work.

While distraught may sound like an old Germanic past participle, it is actually an alteration of distract from the Latin distrahere "to draw in different directions." If you are distraught, you are so upset that it's hard to think straight, hence your mind is "drawn in different directions."

DEFINITIONS OF: distraught

1

adj deeply agitated especially from emotion

distraught with grief”
Synonyms:
overwrought
agitated
troubled emotionally and usually deeply
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