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Definition of Nervous breakdown
1. Noun. A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder.
Specialized synonyms: Nervous Exhaustion, Nervous Prostration, Neurasthenia
Definition of Nervous breakdown
1. Noun. An attack of a psychological disorder such as depression or anxiety so severe that it prevents a person from continuing to function normally ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Nervous breakdown
1. Nonmedical term for an emotional or mental illness; often a euphemism for a psychiatric disorder. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nervous Breakdown
Literary usage of Nervous breakdown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years by Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick (1904)
"The torture of continually enforced silence is known to produce insanity or
nervous breakdown more than any other feature connected with prison discipline. ..."
2. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the by Robert Burns (1898)
"... The following new letter to Mrs. Dunlop shows that the nervous breakdown which
fell upon him before November was out was preluded by a bad cold. ..."
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