Nervous Breakdown Definition

noun
The sudden onset of a psychotic or neurotic disorder that temporarily impairs a person's ability to function normally, typically precipitated by some crisis or intense, unrelieved stress.
Webster's New World
A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder, especially when occurring suddenly and marked by depression. Not in scientific use.
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Noun

Singular:
nervous breakdown
Plural:
nervous-breakdowns

Nervous Breakdown Sentence Examples

  • The abortion left Ashley in a very fragile mental state and eventually she suffered a nervous breakdown.

  • At this point I was at the point of feeling as tho I was going to have a complete nervous breakdown.

  • I first began to encounter difficulties when the pressure and workload associated with revising for exams caused me to have a severe nervous breakdown.

  • After suffering a second nervous breakdown in 1693, Newton retired from research.

  • It brings spiritual poverty, obesity, social isolation, covert competition, satiation, heartlessness and periodic nervous breakdown.

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