'nervous breakdown' definitions:
Definition of 'nervous breakdown'
(from WordNet)
noun
A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder
Synonyms of 'nervous breakdown'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- brain disease,
- breakdown,
- circulatory collapse,
- collapse,
- crack-up,
- crackup,
- emotional disorder,
- emotional instability,
- exhaustion,
- frayed nerves,
- frazzled nerves,
- functional nervous disorder,
- insanity,
- jangled nerves,
- maladjustment,
- manic-depressive psychosis,
- melancholia,
- mental disorder,
- mental illness,
- nervous disorder,
- nervous exhaustion,
- nervous prostration,
- neurasthenia,
- neurosis,
- paranoia,
- personality disorder,
- problems in living,
- prostration,
- psychosis,
- raw nerves,
- reaction,
- schizophrenia,
- shattered nerves,
- social maladjustment,
- twanging nerves