What is a Nervous Breakdown? #shorts

[todmsn]

Nervous breakdown is an extensive state of overwhelm.

[dream_in_digital]

It may be difficult to define but you know it when you see it.

[DarkerSideOfDawn]

It’s when our anxiety becomes unbearable and you manifest debilitating symptoms ..

[jadetaylor]

I think it is a inability to cope anymore from one or more stressful situation.

[nomopms]

I once told a therapist that I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. She started yelling at me and told me the nerves in my body were not breaking down. I hung up. It was during Menopause, and I felt like I was losing my mind, and couldn't cope anymore. NOT suicidal. High anxiety, totally overwhelmed, hard time focusing and sleeping. I'm fine now. Menopause is long over. May I suggest you not yell at someone who's afraid they're having a "nervous breakdown". The sweetest thing anyone did was take my hand and assure me I'm not going crazy. Such a simple act of kindness greatly eased the anxiety as the hormones scrambled around.

[vowxhing]

Please do a video about how menopause can affect mental health 🙏

[ALT-vzjn]

I had a nervous breakdown a couple of years ago, and it really sucks. It’s like my body and brain just gave out on me from years of severe and sustained stress. You described it very accurately.

[dolorestroeller]

My breakdown was an overwhelming feeling of flight. I needed to run away to somewhere, but didn’t know where that was.. Uncontrollable crying and the inability to stay still or concentrate on anything. All things of importance went out the window.
Only medication sleep and time would bring relief 😢😢

[faff]

I had one. I had cancer, my husband left me for another woman, then fought me through court for full custody of our kids. Plus I lost my job. All these stresses combined caused my mind to just gave up. I still can't cope with anything stressful, 7 years later

[annier]

For me, a nervous breakdown was like Chronic Fatigue though not physical, but emotional. Forced to confront what caused it meant it became a breakthrough. With improved self-awareness, a “breakdown” can be totally positive and life-improving. It’s an opportunity for growth.

[banjiddle]

I heard from a psychiatrist that the brain can get overwhelmed and shuts down as a way of protection.

[Jane-rcrk]

When I had what I called a nervous breakdown: I couldn’t function at all, I couldn’t get dressed, I couldn’t set foot through the door, I couldn’t eat, I could barely speak. I had serious work related stress, was in an abusive relationship ( I didn’t recognise it as such … but it turns out that what I had thought was autism, was autism with a serious personality disorder) and my father had died 18 months earlier and I hadn’t been able to grieve.
The results are still evident and I am still recovering from CPSTD from situations, am easily triggered by events and am often anxious without cause. The effects have been devastating not just for me but for my two daughters who were teens at the time.

[Mehki]

I watched a neighbor have one. She came to my aunt's house and kept saying she wantef to use her phone. She'd pick up the phone, start to dial, start to cry, slam the receiver, then repeat, crying over and over Alarmed my aunt called the cops. The woman ended up in a mental hospital and died there.

Here's a creepy part to the story. Before this, I was walking down the street when I saw her son on a bike in the street. I had a very strong urge to yell at him to get off his bike and stop riding, but as I was thinking about why I would have this urge, I heard a sound like BOOP! And I knew immediately he had just been hit by a car. Sure enough. There he was laying in the street, skull crushed, dead. It didn't take long for his mother to have a mental breakdown.

[LynnCooks]

I didn't recognize I had one (a "nervous breakdown") until months later after reflecting on several days following a traumatic event in my life. I didn't "do" anything outwardly, but my thoughts & ideas over several days were very extreme and out of character for me. 7 months later, I've adjusted and am still going through the life altering event...but the initial "shock" of it, to my surprise, was most definitely a "nervous breakdown". Weird...when you are past it and look back & see how a sudden shock/crisis can so dramatically alter a person's normal thoughts, feelings & ideas.

[zenawarrior]

Really good info again. Thanks Dr G😊💜💜

[smac]

You'll know it when you have one. Believe me.

[dansheffield]

Whether or not a nervous breakdown is agreed upon by the medical community, I think we can all agree: it's a melancholy day for all

[KarenAbella-dope]

Thanks doc. This doc helps me recover and a lifetime miracle workers. Authentic. A keep. Lucky for us to have him

[peasantrule]

When it happened to me I was going through multiple stressful situations. I began to shut down mentally. It was like my brain shut off. I couldn't function, stayed in bed for 3 months and lost like 30 pounds. What I learned from that is that I never want to go through that again so I do everything I can to manage stress. It has not happened again.

[matthewneufer]

it's usually a progress of a series of Unfortunate events Which causes one to break down emotionally They've passed their threshold and can take no more.. You'll hear them say their done its over I'm over ect.