mental collapse
Example Sentences
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Jonathan Laidlaw KC told the court four mental health experts had concluded Safi suffered a "complete mental collapse" during the incident.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
He returned to New York to be near his father, who suffered a mental collapse.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2021
Then my own body, via increasingly debilitating bouts of illness —vomiting and vertigo that left me bedridden for days — culminating in a mental collapse last summer, forced me to confront it, too.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2020
Between his final meeting with Wagner, in 1876, and his mental collapse of 1889, Nietzsche lived the life of an intellectual ascetic.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
It was a physical and mental collapse, coming with great suddenness, but he recognized it for what it was, the natural consequence flowing from a period of such excessive strain.
From The Lords of the Wild A Story of the Old New York Border by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
