A nervous breakdown refers to a period of intense and severe emotional symptoms like panic, anxiety, and distress. You may ...

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When anxiety spikes, the nervous system can shift into fight-or-flight in seconds, but it can also be guided back toward balance just as quickly. Clinicians increasingly recommend brief "micro-resets" ...

"Nervous breakdown" was never an official diagnosis, just a popular euphemism and convenient catch-all for the inability to function due to psychological stress. Melinda Beck has details on Lunch ...

When I was a junior in high school my Spanish teacher started behaving very strangely. She became increasingly agitated and defensive, and the class, sensing her emotional frailty, responded as a pack ...