emotional collapse

Example Sentences

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Overwhelmed by grief, I suffered a severe emotional collapse.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2021

Two years later, he was teaching at the University of Illinois-Chicago when he was hospitalized for an emotional collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2017

Painfully earnest and yet cringingly self-congratulatory, they all follow Gilbert’s road to redemption — an emotional collapse, a spiritual journey, a self-affirming conclusion — in the most prosaic way possible.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016

A Scanner Darkly is about a descent into the deep fears of our 24-hour consumer society: the twilight of intellectual and emotional collapse.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012

Uncle Bob was on the verge of an emotional collapse.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith