nervous exhaustion

Always high-strung, he was prone to mysterious fainting spells and periods of nervous exhaustion, which led some to question his dedication.

Chastain declared, referring to an incident in 1989, when Lewis was playing Hamlet at London’s National Theatre and, citing nervous exhaustion, quit the run in mid-performance, never to act onstage again.

For those left in the wake of the hurricane, Farmer’s brief, intense flurry of activity could result in a case of nervous exhaustion—a case of “decompressing from Paul,” Jim said.

In the early 1930s, he again found himself “on the verge of nervous exhaustion.”

Rather, it’s what the president hasn’t done: rage and howl and push the country to a state of nervous exhaustion.