as in breakdown
a mental or nervous collapse
you're going to have a nervous breakdown if you keep up that pace
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This is not one of those melodramatic movies where the mother has a nervous breakdown after the husband, unable to handle the pressure of kids, takes off with his personal assistant.
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
With The Coin, Zaher creates a hypnotic portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 22 May 2024
The Gutierrez brothers grew up in a low-income house with an alcohol father who frequently beat both his sons and his wife, who at one point was hospitalized after a nervous breakdown, Mosnik wrote in her report.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
The national nervous breakdown Which brings us to the debate, also known as the national nervous breakdown.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
With The Coin, Zaher creates a hypnotic portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 22 May 2024
The Gutierrez brothers grew up in a low-income house with an alcohol father who frequently beat both his sons and his wife, who at one point was hospitalized after a nervous breakdown, Mosnik wrote in her report.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
The national nervous breakdown Which brings us to the debate, also known as the national nervous breakdown.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
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“Nervous breakdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nervous%20breakdown. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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