nervous breakdown
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In my mid 60s, I found myself divorced and on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
The court heard details of the defendant's mental health issues, including a nervous breakdown in the 1990s.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
In “Greenberg,” Ben Stiller’s title character is a cantankerous and neurotic New Yorker who has fled west after a nervous breakdown.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
It cost him £27m in lost revenue and prompted a "nervous breakdown" among publishers, he said, but it paid off and in 2016 the company returned to profit.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
Around that time he had begun to say and do things that, as Dr. Webb says, were signs of some sort of nervous breakdown or stress-induced mania.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
