Feelings shown by people put into some distress (8)
I believe the answer is:
emotions
'feelings' is the definition.
(emotion is a kind of feeling)
'into some distress' is the wordplay.
'distress' indicates anagramming the letters.
'into'+'some'='intosome'
'intosome' is an anagram of 'EMOTIONS'.
'shown by people put' acts as a link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emotions that I've seen before include "Intense mental feelings, like love or hate" , "Anger and love, say" , "instinctive feelings" , "Feelings provoked by noise, Tom" , "Strong feelings" .)