be beside (oneself)

To be very emotional, especially shocked or distraught. I was beside myself when I found out I'd been rejected from my first-choice school. Honestly, we've all been beside ourselves since the funeral.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
FernÃO	-	Portuguese
Balthazar	-	Judeo-Christian Legend
Kreios	-	Greek Mythology
Darinka	-	Slovene, Croatian
Nyazik	-	Turkmen
Margareta	mahr-gah-RE-tah (German), MAHR-gah-re-tah (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovene, Dutch, Finnish, Croatian