mental collapse
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Leavitt consistently contradicts reality with ease — it’s a skill that would cause mental collapse in a person with a conscience.
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2025
He returned to New York to be near his father, who suffered a mental collapse.
From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2021
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
Deppingham put his eyeglass in more firmly and stared at his companion, not knowing whether to take the remark as a jest or to begin to look for signs of mental collapse.
From The Man from Brodney's by McCutcheon, George Barr
