mental collapse
Example Sentences
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Leavitt consistently contradicts reality with ease — it’s a skill that would cause mental collapse in a person with a conscience.
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2025
An oppressive sense of ruin blankets the film, its repeated adoption of Erik’s gaze suggesting the projection of an ongoing mental collapse.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021
He returned to New York to be near his father, who suffered a mental collapse.
From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2021
As recently as 2013, he spent two years in a psychiatric unit following another mental collapse that doctors claim stemmed from what he witnessed in Bosnia.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2019
The million needle points which, just prior to my mental collapse, seemed to goad my brain, now centred their unwelcome attention on the soles of my feet.
From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham
