Synonyms for nervous breakdown
ner·vous break·down

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1. nervous breakdownnoun

   Synonyms:
   mental breakdown

Princeton's WordNet

1. nervous breakdownnoun

   a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder

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1. Candace Braden:

   I was pretty much having a nervous breakdown, it’s really scary to see your baby like that.

2. Vicki Lawrence:

   I always thought hives was your mother-in-law’s nervous breakdown. I thought, ‘Me, hives? I’m not stressed; I’m not nervous.’ But most people do get hives at some point in their lives, and for those of us who have chronic hives it can be on-going.

3. Bertrand Russell:

   One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

4. Sylvia Wilson:

   When Edgar disappeared, I became quite sick. I had to take a leave of absence from work. I was near a nervous breakdown, having an answer would mean closure.

5. Milo Bloom:

   The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.