Posted by baseball55 on July 23, 2016, at 18:53:41
In reply to Re: What's a 'nervous breakdown' officially? » regisx, posted by Horse on July 22, 2016, at 22:44:10
It's not really a medical term, not listed in the DSM and there's no official definition. For a friend of mine, it meant breaking down in tears at work and being unable to stop crying. For me it meant trying to kill myself. For some people it's panic attacks or anxiety.
Basically, your mental state just deteriorates in any of a number of ways. When people call it a breakdown though, they usually refer to a sudden shift in the ability to function that often ends with a trip to the psych ward.
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