nervous breakdown
Example Sentences
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His mother suffered from migraines and depression, leading to what Mr. Foster described as a nervous breakdown.
From Washington Post
“I think the white people are more freaked out about that than we hear. That’s one reason for the anti-immigrant hysteria. . . . This country is heading for a collective nervous breakdown.”
From Washington Post
In a subsequent letter, Cleveland said that mental illness ran in her family and that the death of her mother resulted in her experiencing a nervous breakdown.
From Fox News
"I don’t know why my nervous breakdown happened at the end of the lockdown, I made it all the way through, everything was great and my life was perfect," she recalled.
From Fox News
In 1930, when he was eight years old, his mother was committed to a secure psychiatric centre after suffering a nervous breakdown.
From BBC
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