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This article presents a qualitative research on students who report emotional distress and have moral radical attitudes. The research was inspired by sociologist R.L. Kapur's discovery of an interesting change in the prevalence of reported emotional distress among students at Edinburgh University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Examining the relationship between radicalism and emotional distress the trend appears to be accepted as evidence of a genuine increase in the prevalence of emotional upset in the respective groups. This would imply that the distress is real, with individuals recognizing its presence by judging their emotional state against certain criteria, which had remained invariable over time and place. Alternatively, the reported differences are primarily due to changes in the propensity to report emotional upset students who simply have become less reluctant to confess to feelings of inadequacy, or their perception of what constitutes emotional distress. Emotional upset students altered feeling, a state which might have originally been designated morbid preoccupation is known as emotional disturbance. Alex Robertson