emotional collapse

Example Sentences

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Two years later, he was teaching at the University of Illinois-Chicago when he was hospitalized for an emotional collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2017

Painfully earnest and yet cringingly self-congratulatory, they all follow Gilbert’s road to redemption — an emotional collapse, a spiritual journey, a self-affirming conclusion — in the most prosaic way possible.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016

Later, as she made her way through that vile gantlet, her emotional collapse was long and slow, and it made this diabolical woman truly an object of pity.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2015

A Scanner Darkly is about a descent into the deep fears of our 24-hour consumer society: the twilight of intellectual and emotional collapse.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012

Uncle Bob was on the verge of an emotional collapse.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith