A nervous breakdown is a period when stress makes it hard to do everyday tasks. The term "nervous breakdown" is outdated and not an official medical term. Anxiety, depression, and exhaustion are ...

The term "nervous breakdown" is often used by people to describe an intense stressful situation in which they are temporarily unable to function or maintain daily activities, obligations, or other ...

When Sassy Smith, a 57 year old author from Dorset, had a breakdown in 2019 at the age of 50, she contacted a therapist for ...

Medically there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. But when a successful businessman, after meeting a series of setbacks, develops crotchets and then suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician ...

Nicole McDermott has worked in the creative content space for the last decade as a writer, editor and director. Her work has been featured on TIME Healthland, Prevention, Shape, USA Today, HuffPost, ...

When I was a junior in high school my Spanish teacher started behaving very strangely. She became increasingly agitated and defensive, and the class, sensing her emotional frailty, responded as a pack ...

When I was a junior in high school my Spanish teacher started behaving very strangely. She became increasingly agitated and defensive, and the class, sensing her emotional frailty, responded as a pack ...

Should the term “nervous breakdown” be embraced again? One of my (Michael’s) favorite journalists, Jerry Useem, provides a fascinating look at the history of the nervous breakdown in this article he ...