Desencajada

Desencajada
 

How can I translate desencajada in the following context:
Cuando la ví esta mañana tenía la cara desencajada?

She was clearly upset?

You may want to clarify what it meant in the sentence, but the word looks like out of the box. So, would out of sorts/discombulated (meaning not her normal self)be a workable translation?

"Desencajado(a)", when talking about someone's facial expression, normally means that they're very upset or distraught.

Your proposal "discombobulated" is a good choice for me.
And I think "overwrought" or "discomposed" might work too. :)

OK, distraught is more common than overwrought. Usually overwrought is used in terms like overwrought with fear or grief. It's never positive and it requires a prepositional phrase to follow it. Overwrought with joy is something you never hear. Unlike overwrought, distraught doesn't need a prepositional phrase to clarify it. Overwrought is often used to describe something overdone like Florentine furnature is overwrought with gold leaf and decorations.

Discomposed is a word I had to look up. It fits the description, but you don't hear it much.

I see. It's not a word I'm familiar with. I only took the definition from the dictionary, but didn't see any examples.
Thank you! :)

So, she had her face out of the box?

No, definitely not. I would say, she looked distraught or as Angelica wrote
clearly upset.

I would say "she looked shaken".

"When I saw her this morning she looked shaken" even if we don't literally refer to her face.