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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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.
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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
Her perplexed grins and escalating paranoia are just shy of a nervous breakdown, but she is too measured to reduce an identity-shifting character to one frenetic quality.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 8 May 2024
Such heresies triggered a nervous breakdown from which the U.S. foreign policy establishment has yet to fully recover.
—Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
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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
Her perplexed grins and escalating paranoia are just shy of a nervous breakdown, but she is too measured to reduce an identity-shifting character to one frenetic quality.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 8 May 2024
Such heresies triggered a nervous breakdown from which the U.S. foreign policy establishment has yet to fully recover.
—Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
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“Nervous breakdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nervous%20breakdown. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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