Nervous breakdown help

[ayrin7]

wht is nervous breakdown? is it related to psychosis in anyway?

[Gina2]

Nervous breakdown is an old fashioned term that refers to mania, or suicidal attempt or ideation or psychotic episodes.

[Leaf]

I just googled it and it said it was referring to a severe period of overwhelming stress, anxiety or depression. It didn’t say anything about psychosis.

Are you ok?

[Diana_Ross7]

I prefer nervous breakdown as a term for our experience…

[Leaf]

I prefer "nervous breakdown: for when I’m stressing big time. I say “psychotic episode” for when I’ve gone psychotic.

[zeno]

I think it is not related to sz because sz is chronic, while a nervous breakdown is only an acute episode.

[frencheese]

If I have to tell people something I tell them I had a nervous breakdown. Its more acceptable to them for whatever reason.

[crimby]

I don’t think the term “nervous breakdown” is used officially by psychiatrists. It’s more a layman’s catch all term for any type of psychological dysfunction.