nervous breakdown
Example Sentences
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In my mid 60s, I found myself divorced and on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
It cost him £27m in lost revenue and prompted a "nervous breakdown" among publishers, he said, but it paid off and in 2016 the company returned to profit.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
Another great performance in a go-for-broke horror flick about a woman well over the verge of a nervous breakdown.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025
In the mostly forgotten 1990 film "Crazy People," Dudley Moore's character, an advertising executive, has a nervous breakdown and starts creating brutally honest ads.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024
The work was delicate and exhausting, and had to be suspended for a time to permit Michelson a brief but comprehensive nervous breakdown, but by 1887 they had their results.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
