emotional collapse

Example Sentences

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Both the local police and Kongsberg’s district psychiatric care center are being investigated for possible lapses in their dealings with Mr. Brathen during his apparent emotional collapse.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 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

His insomnia and pain, the crushing workload, and his mounting frustration all tore at his spirit until by the end of March he felt himself on the verge of physical and emotional collapse.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson