nervous breakdown

Noun

Meaning

a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

mental breakdown derangement depression neurosis crisis collapse breakdown madness insanity psychosis paranoia lunacy neurasthenia psychopathy schizophrenia
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Antonyms

reason solution balance intelligence explanation calm
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Hypernyms

breakdown crack up

Hyponyms

neurasthenia nervous exhaustion nervous prostration

Examples

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. Art Buchwald

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. Lawrence Durrell

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. Bertrand Russell

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown. Isaac Asimov

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life. Brian Wilson

Close letter words and terms

nervous as a cat nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs nervous as a whore in church nervous collapse nervous disorder nervous energy