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
But he zeroed in on the motif in the summer of 1889, after suffering a mental collapse and voluntarily entering the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
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
It seems only natural therefore to connect them with Handel's mental collapse; it became acute in the spring of 1737, but it may well have been approaching in the previous year.
From Handel by Dent, Edward J.
