[ USEMAP : cdfh . jpg ] Covid - 19 Information Page Go Back City - Data Forum > General Forums > Psychology Reload this Page Nervous Breakdown ( inability , anxiety , syndrome , issues ) User Name User Name [ X ] Remember Me Password Log in [ Register ] Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it ' s free and quick ! Some forums can only be seen by registered members . After you create your account , you ' ll be able to customize options and access all our 15,0 new posts / day with fewer ads . 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 08-04-2015 , 03 : 39 PM CinnaBunney CinnaBunney started this thread 583 posts , read 529,622 times Reputation : 367 Advertisements [ INS : : INS ] Has anyone on here ever experienced a nervous breakdown ? What happened ? Why did it happen ? What did you do about it and move past it ? Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message [ INS : : INS ] Old 08-04-2015 , 03 : 49 PM TabulaRasa TabulaRasa won $ 500 in our forumʼs Most Engaging Poster Contest - Tenth Edition ( Apr - May 2014 ) . Over $ 104,0 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum and additional contests are planned Location : Middle America 37,406 posts , read 45,979,857 times Reputation : 52604 The term is pretty colloquial . " Nervous breakdown " is lay terminology that ' s usually used to indicate when a person has reached an emotional and sometimes physiological breaking point of what they are able to handle , stress - wise . This breakdown in ability to cope can come as the result of trauma , a buildup of anxiety , chronic depression , panic disorder , or the onset of many mental health issues . Coping skills have ceased and everything has become acutely and temporarily suspended . It ' s typically marked by a shutdown and inability to go about normal daily living routines and self - care independently , and is an acute disconnection from regular routines and responsibilities that is the body and psyche ' s last ditch effort to try to regroup and regain coping skills . It ' s not really a clinical or scientific term , and symptoms have to be treated individually based on severity . Inpatient or outpatient treatment is typically helpful in assisting an individual with regrouping and regaining healthy coping skills , as well as reorganizing things in their lives that contributed to things reaching an overwhelming breaking point . Self - care is huge . Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message Old 08-04-2015 , 04 : 06 PM Paul James Location : Hayesville , N . C > 83 posts , read 55,720 times Reputation : 82 My wife had a heart attack and went to the hospital . I lasted about four days and had my brake down then eight days in a behavioral hospital . We are back together at last and then I found out I had High Strung emotional episodes from her heat attack . I am trying to make a good out of a bad situation . Paul James HS1 Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message Old 08-06-2015 , 02 : 01 AM Wynternight Location : Anchorage , Alaska 3,841 posts , read 4,020,311 times Reputation : 3079 Back in March I had a day where everything just came together in a perfect * storm for me . I had changed insurance and needed some pre - auths for meds I had been on for months , they were dragging their feet so I had been off some stuff that stabilised my moods so I was already doing poorly at that point . The morning it all fell apart for me I got a ticket driving to work because I was late and speeding ($ 130 ) . I checked my account balance and found out the VA had shorted me $ 400 due to some sort of quirk of my retirement plan so I was suddenly faced with being broke for two weeks after paying rent . The thing that topped it all off was I went to Walgreen ' s that night and found out my new insurance plan had a medication deductible I had to meet and my $ 30 co - pay was suddenly $ 150 which I could not afford . I broke down in my car in the parking lot and cried my eyes out for a good ten minutes . I had exceeded my ability to cope and just fell apart . All of this was in addition to some other things going on like a major life transition and pre - existing depression and anxiety not to mention almost six weeks of fighting one of the nastiest flu bugs I had ever had . As I drove home I began to calm down and by the time I pulled up to my garage I was in the most coldly rational and methodical mode of thinking I had ever felt ( well , rational is up to debate ) . I was , at that point , capable of anything . I decided that I was going to hurt myself because if I didn ' t , I was going to kill myself . I needed pain and blood and I was going to get it . I went upstairs to my flat , got out of my work clothes , put everything away and went looking for the sharpest knife I could find . After some experimentation I found one and began to cut my left arm to ribbons . I bled , I hurt , and when I was done I felt drained . The experience had been cathartic . I got on - line and found a suicide hotline and spent hours talking to someone with my arm bleeding down onto my black sweatpants . When I was done , I cleaned and bandaged my arm and went to bed and slept like a rock . That Monday I called my PCP and therapist and told them I needed help . I was put on new anti - depressants by my PCP and was in to see my therapist that day . Mum sent me $ 150 to get the med I needed and a few extra to get me through to the next payday . Unfortunately the physical and mental stress of the whole event put me into an acute " awakening / exacerbation " of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia which I am still dealing with . The CFS has all but incapacitated me at times and I ' m in the process of tweaking meds with my PCP to find something to help with the fatigue . I don ' t want to end up one of the 80 % of CFS sufferers who go on disability . I ' m too young for that and have to much yet I want to do . So yes , that was my " nervous breakdown " and it was a bad one . I chose the knife over the gun but honestly , in the mental state I was in at the time , it could have gone either way ; I was so cold and methodical at the time . It ' s frightening now to look back and see the mental state I was in at that time . Rate this post positively Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum . It is free and quick . 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