mental collapse
Example Sentences
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Jonathan Laidlaw KC told the court four mental health experts had concluded Safi suffered a "complete mental collapse" during the incident.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
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
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
Aleck, however, went to pieces, gone down in that species of mental collapse by which deliberate, judicial men become reckless, and strong men become weak.
From The Stolen Singer by Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
