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"Nervous breakdown" is not really a clinical term-
it's more of a broad/layperson's phrase, that can be used to describe a range of crises (for reasons emotional/biochemical/what have you).
I haven't had one, nor have I witnessed one (knowingly)-
however, when I was a kid my mother would have what were referred to as "nervous breakdowns", during which time she would disappear and go live with her parents.
I later learned that she had bipolar disorder, wasn't well-managed with medication,
and her "nervous breakdowns" were periods of manic exhaustion (or deep depression), paranoia, and psychological decompensation.
She couldn't function anymore when things became that severe-
but after a few weeks, things would go back to normal (seemingly) for several months or a year or two, until it happened all over again.
It's (so far as I know) not something that happens suddenly (like a tantrum, meltdown, or panic attack) in an instant, right before your eyes-
it's a phenomenon that builds (or spirals/snowballs) with pressure/stress over time-though it can be like "the straw that broke the camel's back", I suppose.
..."however, when I was a kid my mother would have what were referred to as "nervous breakdowns", during which time she would disappear and go live with her parents.
I later learned that she had bipolar disorder, wasn't well-managed with medication,
and her "nervous breakdowns" were periods of manic exhaustion (or deep depression), paranoia, and psychological decompensation.
She couldn't function anymore when things became that severe-
but after a few weeks, things would go back to normal (seemingly) for several months or a year or two, until it happened all over again.
It's (so far as I know) not something that happens suddenly (like a tantrum, meltdown, or panic attack) in an instant, right before your eyes-
it's a phenomenon that builds (or spirals/snowballs) with pressure/stress over time-though it can be like "the straw that broke the camel's back", I suppose.
This happened with my mother when I was a child. She would go to my aunt's, her sister's, and pretty much sit in a chair and stare out of a window. Or she went to bed for days at the time. I was just told "Your mamma doesn't feel well." I knew it wasn't physical. After a while, she would get up and everything would go back to normal. After my father died, one time she was hospitalized with hysterical blindness for a month and actually had the electroshock therapy to return her normal sight. I wish some of the drugs available now were available then, but I doubt she would have taken it. She felt one's faith should overcome depression.
I have had panic attacks several times, along with depression, throughout my adult life.
Yeah, I did a few years ago. It happened after months of colossal events occurring in my life, some my own doing and others not.
It's not like in the movie, where it happens in a day and the person ends up catatonic when it's over. In my case, it lasted for a couple weeks, surging in waves, and was finally concluded to be a symptom of an illness. Sucks that I had to go through it, but at least it got me to a place where I had to confront that there was a real problem that I couldn't abate on my own.
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