mental collapse
Example Sentences
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He returned to New York to be near his father, who suffered a mental collapse.
From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2021
Then my own body, via increasingly debilitating bouts of illness —vomiting and vertigo that left me bedridden for days — culminating in a mental collapse last summer, forced me to confront it, too.
From Salon • Aug. 31, 2020
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
Between his final meeting with Wagner, in 1876, and his mental collapse of 1889, Nietzsche lived the life of an intellectual ascetic.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019
His clothes, the same he had worn that ever-memorable night, hung loosely about his gaunt frame, and there was a vacancy in his eyes which was eloquent of mental collapse.
From The Goose Girl by MacGrath, Harold
