mental collapse

And then we spend the next hour learning that mom, played by Jamie Lee Curtis in a turn that will likely earn her an Emmy to go along with that recent Oscar, is most decidedly not OK and is in fact on the verge of a mental collapse.

Mr. Johnson, 21 and serving a short sentence for gun possession, was in the throes of a mental collapse that had gone largely untreated, but hardly unwatched.

The Marcuses were found dead in shocking squalor in their apartment in 1975, following what may have been a drug-fueled, mutual mental collapse.

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.

An oppressive sense of ruin blankets the film, its repeated adoption of Erik’s gaze suggesting the projection of an ongoing mental collapse.