nervous_breakdown has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

She suffered a nervous_breakdown and had to be institutionalized .

Mr._A. , her fellow townsman , also experienced a nervous_breakdown just as_soon_as he discovered that he had been bilked of his life savings by the limited practitioner who had been treating his wife - a woman suffering from an incurable disease , multiple_sclerosis - and himself .

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