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nervous breakdown is a term used to describe a period of intense mental or emotional distress. It is not a medical diagnosis, but it generally refers to a time when a person's ability to cope with stress and anxiety becomes overwhelmed, causing them to feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and unable to function normally.
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I gave up on the intense search when I was sixteen — it was doing my head in and I had a sort
of nervous breakdown.
Even for those who hadn't lived halfway around the world for the last three years, the spring of 1968 felt like a
national nervous breakdown.
In an interview with Julian Schnabel, Emin ellaborates: «I had a kind of mini
nervous breakdown in my very small flat and didn't get out of bed for four days.
When several miners appear to suffer
from nervous breakdowns or massive fatigue due to «burning out», O'Niel is told its all part and parcel of the job.
In the worst case, I catalysed a man's
nervous breakdown by voicing a disagreement online in the most strenuously diplomatic way I could possibly manage.
Whether or not it's accurate to portray Travers as a woman on the verge of
nervous breakdown because the movie version of her books might change a minor character and inflame her daddy issues (Personally, I doubt it), the conceit, like the central fight over ideas, works as drama.
Expectations are now so low for Jeremy Corbyn that anything short of a full
nervous breakdown at the microphone is regarded as a success.
With many of these women, it is difficult to speak of
nervous breakdown as a specific event that interrupted the course of their normal daily activities.
Once safely installed at one of the country's premier universities I drove myself to a termly
nervous breakdown trying to balance my extracurricular life with the demands of working toward a first - class degree.
With America in the midst of a
collective nervous breakdown (our suicide rate surpasses even our murder rate, if there was any doubt on that score), the American Dream has been reduced to a mental patient strapped into an electroshock therapy bed clenching our flag between gritting teeth.
Newton suffered a
complete nervous breakdown in 1693, at the height of his career, and was subsequently given a prestigious, if undemanding, position as Warden and Master of the Royal Mint.
It's an easy movie to disrespect, an 88 - minute
mini nervous breakdown that audiences, once recovered, will start mocking long before they even make it to their car.
Nor is it just the importance, though without him Brad Guzan and Andi Weimann would have had thundering
nervous breakdowns around Christmas time.
Despite her condition — she regularly saw psychiatrists and suffered
more nervous breakdowns — Baron managed to show her work in group and solo exhibitions, including at Manhattan galleries.
In an effort to save you some research time (and a
possible nervous breakdown), we spoke to several admissions counselors from various types of educational institutions (Christian university, state school, media school and private college) about the most important elements to consider when deciding on a school.
«It would be churlish to point out that in a subsequent volume of autobiography Canon Phillips explained to his readers the nature of these «difficult circumstances» through which he was passing: depressions and
nervous breakdowns so severe as to constitute periodic bouts of lunacy; churlish because irrelevant.
The known laws of health are persistently violated, not alone by the careless who injure themselves or infect others, but even by conscientious Christians who in stubborn self - will wear out their energy,
acquire nervous breakdowns or stomach ulcers or heart trouble, and collapse before their time.
This solicitous attitude is no more apparent than in his treatment of Fosdick's
famous nervous breakdown, which Miller diagnoses as «a severe neurotic reactive depression.»
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Embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter is in the hospital after what is being described as a
minor nervous breakdown.
Tomorrow is another day, and from tomorrow until the day I die I will be just one
nervous breakdown away from throwing on a wig and hopping a flight to Botswana.
and the Beveridge LD's (those who have not jumped ship already) increasingly want it to go on to the referendum.Have a look at, er, this mornings Indie for just the latest instalment on the LD's ongoing slow -
burn nervous breakdown.
I think there was a tendency among political commentators to regard what happened in 2015 in the Labour Party as if it was a
political nervous breakdown, as if everybody in the Labour Party had lost their minds, or it was a takeover of the party by entryists.
In 1692, this rare failure, along with the unraveling of one of his few close friendships — and possibly mercury poisoning from his alchemical experiments — resulted in what we'd now call a
prolonged nervous breakdown.
High protein / Atkins had always worked for me... but after my younger sister's death and the world falling apart proceeding that I wound up with
several nervous breakdowns, thyroid issues (left undiagnosed my whole life) and gall bladder removal (which I gained 60 + lbs with no life style changes).
Frightened by the President's
apparent nervous breakdown, his Chief of Staff pushes him back into the spotlight, booking him as a guest judge on the television ratings juggernaut (and the President's personal fave), the weekly talent show American Dreamz.
But so does the striptease scene, the Barbara
Jean nervous breakdown, the opening title song, Barbara Jean's husband... Altman just nails it.
On the other hand, the two included deleted scenes are revelatory, the first («The Sisters Call») running seven minutes and concluding with a dark passage in which Barry has a
borderline nervous breakdown triggered by the sight of a little boy, the second an alternate version of the ATM mugging that uses the same dialogue to achieve a completely different, if inferior, effect.
The script from Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner jumps between the reclusive songwriter's life in the Sixties, looking at his success with Pet Sounds and his
eventual nervous breakdown, to the»80s, when he met the woman who would become his second wife and help him get out from under the control of controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy, played by Paul Giamatti.
His
temporary nervous breakdown — where it all gets too much for him and he wants to «just go home — is the standout scene, and a perfect example of what I'm trying to explain.
Margot Kidder, the actress, who died last Sunday aged 69, was best known for her star turn as the intrepid Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane, the girl who won Superman's heart, in four blockbusters starring Christopher Reeve as the all - American Man of Steel; she later succumbed to what some described as the «curse of Superman», including suffering a highly -
publicised nervous breakdown in 1996.
You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs Center of a crowd, talking much too loud, running up and down the stairs Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years And though you've tried you just can't hide, your eyes are edged with tears You better stop, look around Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes Here comes your
nineteenth nervous breakdown - The Rolling Stones
Marc Quinn's «Yellow
Cut Nervous Breakdown» (1998), for example, is a floating head, a horror movie cliche, drowned in poured enamel like the globe in the Sherwin - Williams logo, its «brain» soaking in the puddled paint on the floor.
The psychological effects resulting from a car accident personal injury may include:
Trauma Nervous breakdown Psychosis A developed phobia to any automobile related experience
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