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View detailed profile ( Advanced ) or search site with Google Custom Search City , County or Zip Find It Search Forums ( Advanced ) Search Forum Reply Start New Thread Old 05-01-2012 , 12 : 16 AM L ' Artiste L Location : where people are either too stupid to leave or too stuck to move 3,986 posts , read 6,070,380 times Reputation : 3660 Advertisements [ INS : : INS ] Today , I guess I kind of lost it or snapped rather . Something simple went wrong and I went into a fit of rage which started to make me scream , kick and cry uncontrollably for about 30 minutes . I threw things around . I hit objects , including myself . Then my head started to pound for about 5 hrs until the tyenol kicked in . . after i was done i felt drained and just laid there staring at the ceiling for a couple hours . What happened ? Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message [ INS : : INS ] Old 05-01-2012 , 08 : 04 AM Mightyqueen801 Moderator Mightyqueen801 won $ 500 in our forumʼs Most Informative Poster contest - Third Edition ( Jun - Jul 2012 ) . Over $ 104,0 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum and additional contests are planned Location : Coastal New Jersey 66,569 posts , read 62,405,261 times Reputation : 81464 Nah , " nervous breakdown " is an old - time term for what we now call clinical depression . My mother always told us she dropped out of high school to take care of the house / family including her sister , who had CP and was mentally retarded , when my grandmother had a nervous breakdown . As an adult , I asked exactly what that meant : My grandmother could not get out of bed , cried all the time , slept a lot , barely ate , and just could not function generally . That ' s depression . Sounds as if you had a meltdown , but I don ' t know if there ' s a technical term . I have experienced that . Sometimes one little thing is the straw that breaks the camel ' s back , and you need to sort of vomit emotionally . Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message Old 05-01-2012 , 04 : 57 PM looking4answers12 Location : FL 1,727 posts , read 2,303,144 times Reputation : 1047 I ' ve been trying to get a specific defition of " nervous breakdown " for years . What my " understanding " of what it meant is pretty much what the OP described . From my point of view , I think a nervous breakdown would be closer to a meltdown than to depression . But I can ' t say that I ' ve ever found a true definiton . Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message Old 05-01-2012 , 08 : 59 PM looking4answers12 Location : FL 1,727 posts , read 2,303,144 times Reputation : 1047 What is a Nervous Breakdown ? | World of Psychology Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message Old 05-01-2012 , 10 : 55 PM mistygrl092 5,546 posts , read 9,099,010 times Reputation : 2786 I think I had a mini nervous breakdown some years back . Reality just came crashing in and I could not handle it . This was related to some guy who turned out to be not who I thought he was at all . To this day I ' d still like to know who he really is , to the extent I even thought about hiring a PI . Anyway , in my mini nervous breakdown I did not end up in the hospital , although maybe that would have been the best place for me . I just lost it and did things like wear the same clothes for days on end , sleep on the sofa , attention to personal hygiene went right out the window . This was a prolonged thing I could not shake . I honestly can ' t tell you what when on in some months . Things were a blur . Months later when I was finally starting to get better my dad went into hospice . That pretty much sent me over the edge . I am not proud of how I handled those months , but considering what I ' d just been through I NEEDED a respite . I think of a meltdown ( which is what it sounds like the OP experienced ) as something short lived and it is different from a nervous breakdown . I think during a nervous breakdown you just . cannot . take . one . more . thing . And it shows . Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message Old 05-02-2012 , 09 : 46 AM Mightyqueen801 Moderator Mightyqueen801 won $ 500 in our forumʼs Most Informative Poster contest - Third Edition ( Jun - Jul 2012 ) . Over $ 104,0 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum and additional contests are planned Location : Coastal New Jersey 66,569 posts , read 62,405,261 times Reputation : 81464 Quote : Originally Posted by looking4answers12 View Post What is a Nervous Breakdown ? | World of Psychology Thanks . Good link , good explanation . I don ' t think the OP ' s description fits any definition of " nervous breakdown " , since it seems to have been a short - lived and isolated event . Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message Old 05-03-2012 , 01 : 03 AM jasper12 jasper12 won $ 500 in our forumʼs Most Informative Poster contest - Fourth Edition ( Sep - Oct 2012 ) . Over $ 104,0 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum and additional contests are planned 18,847 posts , read 33,709,474 times Reputation : 26249 Sounds like you were having a physical reaction to something in your life that you can ' t control , and you had to just experience this rage before internalizing it . External manisfestation of emotional distress . Common response to situations that create complete helplessness . Do you know what triggered this meltdown ? Once I completely over reacted when a tele marketer called ... I screamed and raged at this person ... not me at all ! I never act like that . But ... I just took it all out on this guy on the phone ... I was in a period of my life with extreme stress . My cousin had a nervous breakdown ... she almost went " Andrea Yates " on her kids ... but she called for help , and she went to the psych unit for a few weeks ... and got treatment and medication . 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