nervous breakdown

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

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.

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

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

"We often wonder whether mum had a nervous breakdown during that time," she said.