emotional collapse
Example Sentences
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Overwhelmed by grief, I suffered a severe emotional collapse.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2021
In his 20s, he suffered a physical and emotional collapse at the RSC and, for a while, directed from a day-bed in the rehearsal room.
From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2017
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
Uncle Bob was on the verge of an emotional collapse.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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