mental collapse
Example Sentences
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Jonathan Laidlaw KC told the court four mental health experts had concluded Safi suffered a "complete mental collapse" during the incident.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
An oppressive sense of ruin blankets the film, its repeated adoption of Erik’s gaze suggesting the projection of an ongoing mental collapse.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
He returned to New York to be near his father, who suffered a mental collapse.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2021
Then my own body, via increasingly debilitating bouts of illness —vomiting and vertigo that left me bedridden for days — culminating in a mental collapse last summer, forced me to confront it, too.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2020
Crawley sat glaring at all this in a state of mental collapse.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade