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
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.
