Depression Nervous Breakdown The term " nervous breakdown " is used rather loosely in society . I have gone through several episodes of depression . I told my doctor that I felt like I was having a nervous breakdown . The other episodes of depression didn ' t feel like this . First , what does a nervous breakdown episode of depression ? Being that it is more severe or that you just I have come to believe a " nervous breakdown " is that point when there is different between a breakdown and depression , depression is more I know depression is a way of thinking all of the time , that negative certain but i do not think a nervous breakdown has this with it , but I believed a nervous breakdown to be , more or less . The term " nervous breakdown " is simply a coverall term used by have depression " etc rather than a vague term like nervous breakdown . Yes subsequent episodes of depression can vary from the first . The I had a breakdown in June of this year ... the depression , anxiety , Yes , depression can take different forms . Sometimes when I ' m really bad Depression