nervous breakdown
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In “Greenberg,” Ben Stiller’s title character is a cantankerous and neurotic New Yorker who has fled west after a nervous breakdown.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
"We often wonder whether mum had a nervous breakdown during that time," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 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
We had to see them watching our faces for any sign of a nervous breakdown.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
