Comments on: What is a Nervous Breakdown?

By: fe

fe — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:15:14 +0000

AD means adjustment disorder

By: Princess

Princess — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:06:04 +0000

Hi. My husband’s dad suffered a nervous breakdown when my husband was 11/12. My husband is 56 and has only recently started talking with me a bit more about it other than stating that it happened. His mom completely ignored the situation at the time and did not help the children (3 others) cope. It has effected the family deeply. All the siblings live in terrible fear that the illness will come to call on them (their dad’s dad was institutionalized).As midwesterners, no one talks about their feelings but my husband and I are now NYers.I’d like to read an autobio by an adult who lived through this to get some perspective. My husband will not, WILL NOT, 100% go for therapy, and he hates his family.I’d like to just understand a bit more as I am compassionate having come from a childhood of welfare, abuse and then orphaned at 14. I’m not looking for a textbook or clincal look but a first hand account. Thx for listening.

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:11:44 +0000

“A nervous breakdown is not a condition to be afraid of…”

You mean not to be afraid of if it is in a friend or relative, or if it is in yourself? I am here to tell you that if it is in yourself, it can be something to be very afraid of…

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By: Katrin

Katrin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:35:32 +0000

Tony, I agree! DSM stands for ‘Diagnostic Statistical Manual’ of Mental Illness.
AD, I have no clue either. Kat

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:25:25 +0000

I would love to understand all the comments above, but given the poor writing ability of these “posters” I cannot understand what they are talking about. People whom tend to use Acronyms in a general public forum are wasting everyone’s time. Do I know what DSM means? NO, what about AD? NO, so reading your comments means absolutely nothing. Sorry that you’ve wasted your time and mine. Thanks

By: tabitha

tabitha — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:47:56 +0000

that would like the typical ataque de nervios in spanish….mines was short duration…

By: L K Tucker

L K Tucker — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:39:12 +0000

The list of student involvement should be suicides, disappearances, and mass shootings.

By: L K Tucker

L K Tucker — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:35:40 +0000

Dr. Grohol I must disagree with your article. When I took basic psychology the Nervous Breakdown was explained in terms of a dissociative mental break. It had a definite onset and was of short duration even though some effects might be permanent.

The term “nervous breakdown” was changed in the DSM. It was not dignified and had no specific relation to the new naming system.

I would ask you to look at a simple problem explained in first semester psychology under the physiology of sight. You can also verify it in Engineering and Design.

Subliminal Distraction was discovered to cause a believed-to-be harmless temporary episode forty years ago. The Cubicle was designed to deal with it after 1968.

But it is so simple it can happen almost anywhere the “special circumstances” are created long enough.

In seven years of searching I cannot find anyone in medicine or psychology aware of it. No one has researched the problem. No one investigates it when there is a mass school shooting, unexplained student suicide, or mass shooting.

The hint that it is at the bottom of unexplained student events is that a very small number of the missing students recover or are found in altered mental states, Ahmad Arain, UCLA – Matthew Wilson, Rice

By: tabitha

tabitha — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:24:57 +0000

Well I have a nervous crisis due to an abusive emotional situation a few months ago, My husbands comments sent me through the edge….”that I wasn’t important that his family was important(bil/Mil/son)” I called an ambulance I felt so sick and tired. He in an narsicistic turn said I can’t miss work I got pissed off and told to stay at work!…I stayed in the hospital overnight with turned into an extended weekend..my medical records disapeared due to fact that they didn’t provided me an AD that I was using and that started my menses…I was literary begging for a tampon and had to make due and to calm my depression I was surviving on black tea….

By: Gabriela

Gabriela — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:30:43 +0000

Let’s say I have a breakdown.
The Sanity Score from this site could be a very valuable tool for detecting if I need outside help.
Could you do an assessment online? I do not understand or agree with all the questions that conclude the sanity score. I would like to clarify the question before answering and get an assessment from someone that I trust. Of course that could not replace a real assessment done by someone in person. But at least I have a starting point. For example I might feel guilty but I do not see any reason to be punished.(I could explain why, if necessary, but not in public) If a question asks both(see Depression Test)how could I answer? I trust very few to understand correctly what I mean. Maybe it’s more my culture than my English but I suppose you don’t want this to be an impediment when this site is internationally used by people.