mental collapse
Example Sentences
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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
As recently as 2013, he spent two years in a psychiatric unit following another mental collapse that doctors claim stemmed from what he witnessed in Bosnia.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2019
Between his final meeting with Wagner, in 1876, and his mental collapse of 1889, Nietzsche lived the life of an intellectual ascetic.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019
Whether this issue was due to magic or to mental collapse, or to the previous administration of poison, no one seemed to know, not even Nya herself.
From The Ghost Kings by Haggard, Henry Rider
