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

I resisted weakly, and, after the muff was adjusted and locked, for the first time since my mental collapse I wept.

From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham