EMOTIONAL DISTRESS
Scrooge is described as experiencing emotional distress and exhaustion after witnessing scenes involving his past, including seeing his former love Belle and her family, and being haunted by the Ghost. This is evidenced by his broken voice, pleas to be removed from the scene, and his subsequent exhaustion and drowsiness.
SCROOGE
'Spirit!' said Scrooge in a broken voice, 'remove me from this place.' 'Remove me!' Scrooge exclaimed, 'I cannot bear it!' He turned upon the Ghost, and seeing that it looked upon him with a face, in which in some strange way there were fragments of all the faces it had shown him, wrestled with it. 'Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!' ... He was conscious of being exhausted, and overcome by an irresistible drowsiness; and, further, of being in his own bedroom. He gave the cap a parting squeeze, in which his hand relaxed; and had barely time to reel to bed, before he sank into a heavy sleep.