Nervous Breakdown (What To Do About A Mental or Emotional Breakdown) - Teal Swan

A nervous break down, also known as a mental or emotional breakdown, is a temporary but severe stress induced crisis that causes you to lose your ability to function as normal and you experience a collapse. A nervous breakdown is overwhelming and painful to the degree that you feel like you can’t handle life anymore. In this episode, Teal explains what causes a breakdown and also what to do about a nervous breakdown if it should occur.

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Teal Swan is a New Thought Leader and a Bestselling Author who is an expert in human development and relationships. She has over a decade of experience working with people of all walks of life with a mission to reduce human suffering.

Today, she’s also become an International Speaker, having facilitated retreats and life changing workshops in large venues worldwide. Teal was ranked 15th on The Watkins Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2023.

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[chaoticallycontradictory]

This forced 40 hr work week to survive and employees that can't get time off work is essentially killing us more than I thought. Emotional days need to exist everywhere

[grady]

I feel I'm coming to the end of a 54 yr breakdown. I'm finally ready to stop trying to destroy myself. I feel free to leave it all behind and start my life over for the 1st time ever. I actually made this conscious decision just hours before hearing this.

[addictedtothebold]

I had many breakdowns throughout high school and occasionally do now. Really, the best thing you can do is surrender. Let go of trying to feel better and allow all the visuals, emotions and sensations to overtake you. It's really uncomfortable but it does get you out of the situation a lot quicker. Also, assure yourself throughout this process that you are okay and beyond this suffering. Hope this helps.

[dvl]

I LOVE how Teal went back in being much less "professional" and more human and relatable in these videos. It's so much better.

[rainbeau]

I once read: The final stage of healing is using what happened to you to help other people ....and this seems like what you do, so thank you.

[rebekahbarrow]

I'm crying as i watch this! I've suffered from for over a year now. I've been trying to keep up and have so much guilt and pressure from being unemployed and all i do is suffer, but this helps me feel like i can give into my breakdown and its okay
thank you teal!

[truthseekerable]

A nervous breakdown is a sign in your life that something is very wrong. You must pay attention to this symptom. It is telling of a problem you must deal with in order to be healthy

[draculaalucard]

All I can say is home girl Teal swan is the shit! In the most positive way possible. No seriously best advice I've ever heard.

[annastone]

But it’s NOT just what we fear will happen
- it’s what DOES happen.

So we fear success because we DO get attacked, while others just get praise & support.

It’s not as simple as knowing what we fear.

Changing oneself from someone who gets bullied & attacked, to a person who does not - is years of work!!

[see]

I could have really used the information/perspective in this video a few years ago when I had a gun to my head ready to end my life.  Obviously I got through it, but the pain and perception that things would never change was overwhelming.  My life has completely changed since that time:  new lifepath, different people, and a refreshed state of mind.  I let go of practically everything/everyone, namely a career and friends/family who trivialized/minimized my suffering.  Life isn't perfect or easy now, however I no longer feel the burdensome weight of feeling stuck or stagnant.   Best wishes and sincere hugs if anyone reading this is experiencing difficult times.  Things DO eventually change, hold onto hope - unfortunately, it may take awhile.  Be gentle to yourself. 

[jerrytyfting]

There is a thought I have had for a while now and that is the more sensitive you become the more you almost cant live in this world because of how most of the society works. So either you choose to isolate yourself to avoid all the "hard" points or try to change the system into a more softer place to be in. That is what I want to do, because hiding or running away wont change anything.

[MyWittsend]

ThxYou suffering TBI PTSD alone homeless struggling

Grateful access wifi to listen to your advice & pray I get through this horrid time in my life.

[Rhiannoncout]

I had a breakdown about four years ago and I haven't been the same since. I went into a catatonic state but was mentally aware of everything. I am terrified it will happen again. I was terrified of my own children and animals. It was pure he'll and painful. It felt like someone was shaking my brain, which also made me nauseated. I threw up for 3 days straight. Thank God, I had someone to help me through it although they were clueless to what was happening. Without that person I probably would have died. Stress, PTSD brought it on. Doctor said it was called conversion disorder, they have little info about it. So please if you are over stressed try meditation, relaxing anything you can do to feel safe. And please pray for me as I am scared to leave my own home.

[XenModeGames]

hi I'm blake and I'm 15 You are the first video I found. and to be honest I was in the middle of trying to not have a nervous breakdown.I was trying to stop it from happening in the first place.. thank you for these insperational and informative words about what is happening to me and others that are having breakdowns... I'm feeling much better knowing that I will become stronger if I just let this happen... I was having suicidal thoughts and already suffer from depression. so thank you. for these tips and tricks to let me live a better life.

[dacialeigh]

I lost it when she said "it's okay to not be okay." 😭
The hardest part is letting go of the need to DO rather than just BE. But I believe this experience is truly a blessing and leads to a beautiful awakening! ❤✨

[vickyi]

Just yesterday I was searching about Nervous Breakdown and now Teal make a video about that. We are all connected.

[tigerlily]

I did have a breakdown over 30 yrs ago. I had to be put on medication and it really helped, but it took me years to recover.

[Dolphin]

Oh my goodness I was watching this because I wanted to do a college essay about nervous breakdowns. It was only after I watched it and read a load of comments I realised that what I experienced 2 years ago was in fact a nervous breakdown.

I had a spiritual awakening in April 2020 - I had considered it as “spontaneous” but I now realise what preceded it in the previous weeks was actually an emotional and mental breakdown. I was like a zombie that kept crying throughout the day. At the point where I just had to surrender- I said to my husband that I desperately needed some space to process as I was struggling with keeping it together for the two kids. I went to bed for a couple of days and started journaling and meditating for the first time. I set an intention to work through my childhood trauma. And like a lightening bolt, a day or two later I had a spiritual awakening where my heart chakra cracked open and that night I thought I was going to die. It has been an amazing, terrifying, challenging and beautiful journey since. I am so grateful for the breakdown for helping become aware of and heal my childhood wounds, for helping me align to a beautiful life. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

For anyone going through this I wish you so much love and light 🙏

[brokerricardocarrillo]

Mine started January 2020. Wasn’t sure what was happening to me. I had to get on med to help me find some balance along with therapy. It’s been a long hard journey. I had to make many changes in my lifestyle. Definitely see life different. Hang in there, it does get better.

[maggyebraheem]

I had my first nervous breakdown at 14 years old. I still have them. Iv'e been in the hospital 8 times in the past 3 months. I have PTSD from my past experiences..I was 18 years old when I met my sweet husband who was a sailor in the Iranian Navy. We married 2 months later. Little did I know he was the devil himself. He talked so highly of Persia...this was back in 1973, I went. I was a sheltered child...his family treated me so good. But when I got so sick from the food then I got pregnant, I had to come back to the States. Well he was so angered he had to stay behind because he was still in the Navy. When he joined me one month before our baby was born...it was good at first. After my daughter was born then it all started... He would beat me so bad strangle me, always told me he was going to take my baby back ti Iran ... Then he would tell me he was going to kill me and my daughter she was 1 year old. He would pick me up and throw me against the wall, while I was laying there he would jump on me and bite me. After 4 years of torture and him keeping me locked in the house, having to look at the ground when a man walks by... And GOD don't make him see BLACK as he would say.. I ran away with my daughter one day while he was at work. I went to my moms work place. She saved my life. Can't write any more. To upsetting. I raised my beautiful, daughter to be strong and fearless.🌹