as in breakdown
a mental or nervous collapse
you're going to have a nervous breakdown if you keep up that pace
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Recent Examples of nervous breakdown
In that way, this sculpture’s appearance foreshadows the nervous breakdown that caused de Saint Phalle to be committed, with her consent, to a mental institution.
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Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Can’t a girl have a nervous breakdown/trial separation/midlife crisis/death/divorce in peace around here?!
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
For some, watching Adams’ Mother on the verge of a nervous breakdown may trigger PTSD.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
The entire affair smelled like a quasi-constitutional coup attempt authored by a desperate head of state whose intensive bickering with the National Assembly over everything from budgets to investigations had induced a nervous breakdown.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Can’t a girl have a nervous breakdown/trial separation/midlife crisis/death/divorce in peace around here?!
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
For some, watching Adams’ Mother on the verge of a nervous breakdown may trigger PTSD.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
The entire affair smelled like a quasi-constitutional coup attempt authored by a desperate head of state whose intensive bickering with the National Assembly over everything from budgets to investigations had induced a nervous breakdown.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for nervous breakdown
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“Nervous breakdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nervous%20breakdown. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
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