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Just then Goldman Sachs appeared to Burry to be experiencing a nervous breakdown.

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He had pushed himself to the point of a nervous breakdown by the constant traveling and his need to write and produce new material.

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She endured a heartbreaking divorce and a nervous breakdown, while raising a daughter and writing books, only to rally again and find love again in the most unexpected place.

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The finale, a musical nervous breakdown, illuminates what’s been driving the character all along.

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“Even to this day,” she says, “people think of me as the woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.”

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