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nervous breakdown
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nervous breakdown
brain disease, breakdown, circulatory collapse, collapse, crack-up, crackup, emotional disorder, emotional instability, exhaustion, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, functional nervous disorder, insanity, jangled nerves, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, nervous disorder, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neurosis, paranoia, personality disorder, problems in living, prostration, psychosis, raw nerves, reaction, schizophrenia, shattered nerves, social maladjustment, twanging nervesFor further exploring for "nervous breakdown" in Webster Dictionary Online