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
Act Three offers a performance at a point when nervous tension, romantic fury and artistic demoralization bring the production to a nervous breakdown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
Following a nervous breakdown in 2018, he left both the seminary and the conversion therapy group.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2024
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
“Okay, she was having a nervous breakdown, but how could she leave me behind like that?”
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
