mental collapse

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But he zeroed in on the motif in the summer of 1889, after suffering a mental collapse and voluntarily entering the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

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

The cogitations of the first half hour in the white counterpaned bed that night left Elizabeth in a maze of wonder over his physical as well as mental collapse.

From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.