A personal injury attorney will ascertain whether his or her client suffered some or all of the following injuries: Impaired movement; Impaired mental function due to the necessary use of drugs; Interference by her present symptoms and drugs with the future diagnosis of other neck, central nervous system, or psychiatric disorders; Early arthritis; Minor brain injury with a potential for symptoms under appropriate circumstances; Stress-induced headaches; Insomnia; Anxiety and fear [causing the insomnia, nervousness, and dizziness; due to substantial pain or belief that a painful surgical procedure will be necessary]; Anxiety and fear due to a belief as future health problems; Anxiety and fear that dangerous medical or surgical procedures will be necessary to improve her symptoms, or that she will become addicted to the drugs; Anxiety and fear that loss of her job and payment of medical expense will create hardship; Anxiety and fear that she will have a “nervous breakdown” from the mental stress of her injury; Such dependence on the drugs that she is psychologically unable to decrease the dosages when her physical need for the drug diminishes; Anxiety, fear and depression [depression causes fatigue, apathy and insomnia, due to limitations on her normal social and recreational activities caused by her symptoms and by drug side-effects; she is unable to drive]; Anxiety, fear and depression due to humiliation and embarrassment from inappropriate conduct with is a side-effect of the drugs; Anxiety, fear and depression due to continuous physical and mental stress which she believes to be permanent; Anxiety, fear and depression due to loss of friends and marital harmony from stress-induced irritability and personality changes.”
[Stein on Personal Injury Damages [certain citations omitted]]
