What is a nervous breakdown?

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Did you know that the term "Nervous Breakdown" isn't a clinical term? It's a popular term used to describe a mental disorder that a person experiences, but there's no real mental disorder called a "nervous breakdown". Several disorders are lumped under the umbrella of a "Nervous Breakdown" - anxiety attacks, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress syndrome, psychotic disorders, and mood disorders like depression and bi-polar disorder. Typically though, when people speak of a having "Nervous Breakdown", they tend to be experiencing clinical depression.

Read more here... (http://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=288)

[Cocoa]

That is the politically correct definition, however, when I use the term I mean: "getting extra worried, depressed or having a fit over matters were it seem that it is more than I can bear".

[Manu]

I wonder what sparked the initiation of this thread? I was diagnosed as having one....as pretty all of what you just listed were my symptoms more or less!

[BlackCryptoKnight]

I wonder what sparked the initiation of this thread?
No mystery there. There was a discussion in which people stated that they had had nervous breakdowns. Many people attribute various psychological symptoms to having a nervous breakdown without really understanding what they are really eperiencing. So, to generate greater awareness, and help dispell any stigma, this discussion was started.

[Manu]

No mystery there. There was a discussion in which people stated that they had had nervous breakdowns. Many people attribute various psychological symptoms to having a nervous breakdown without really understanding what they are really eperiencing. So, to generate greater awareness, and help dispell any stigma, this discussion was started.


I see. Have you ever experienced anything similar or anything that made you think you were having a nervous breakdown? When you felt as if you no longer control anything around you and you become overly anxious?!

[pogi_2nr]

I should be very grateful that I dont suffer from any of those items stated in that list.
I am quite the opposite, my mood is very consistent at annoyingly bland(I feel sorry for
y'all folks who come into contact with me :icon_twis). Try having an argument with me.. and
embrace my blank stares :D

[BlackCryptoKnight]

I see. Have you ever experienced anything similar or anything that made you think you were having a nervous breakdown? When you felt as if you no longer control anything around you and you become overly anxious?!

I've been depressed, frustrated, and angry before, but I haven't experienced anything that I'd classify as being a "nervous breakdown".

[chany86]

hmm, im learning. felt nervous, had a breakdown, my mother had to literally scoop me up...i thought "that qualifies as a nervous breakdown". lol. :D oh well...i learning atleast.

[Leina]

I see. Have you ever experienced anything similar or anything that made you think you were having a nervous breakdown? When you felt as if you no longer control anything around you and you become overly anxious?!

Yeah that happens to me all the time. Especially when i'm under stress at times i just start shaking, biting my nails or throwing thngs.

[Manu]

Yeah that happens to me all the time. Especially when i'm under stress at times i just start shaking, biting my nails or throwing thngs.

Um...I think that's called a TANTRUM! :)

[gucci man]

mi did feel like mi ago mad one time. thank God i got over it. people, just try get enough sleep, dont surf the net too late yah man. and eat right too

[easyskanka]

No mystery there. There was a discussion in which people stated that they had had nervous breakdowns. Many people attribute various psychological symptoms to having a nervous breakdown without really understanding what they are really eperiencing. So, to generate greater awareness, and help dispell any stigma, this discussion was started.

Many people in britain suffer nervous breakdowns and I think it is very closely related to schizophrenia which unfortunately affects a great deal of black men.

The reason for so many people suffering from mental illness is a accumalation of various perceived pressures that conspire in the individual's mind to cause them to loose a grip on reality.Also a pre-disposition to mental health breakdown can also play a part,together with more complex issues. :eusa_pray

[easyskanka]

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[Jae]

I've had two serious nervous breakdowns, and it's very serious stuff, not just simply feeling overly anxious. It's like someone literally is dragging you 20 ft under into a mire of depression and pain and helplessness; and you're so deep down you can't see reason or anything, you can't feel anything beyond all those bad things and it gets so very bad. You just can't take it, mentally or physically and you buckle. That's how I felt. It's crazy.

[easyskanka]

I've had two serious nervous breakdowns, and it's very serious stuff, not just simply feeling overly anxious. It's like someone literally is dragging you 20 ft under into a mire of depression and pain and helplessness; and you're so deep down you can't see reason or anything, you can't feel anything beyond all those bad things and it gets so very bad. You just can't take it, mentally or physically and you buckle. That's how I felt. It's crazy.

Thanks for sharing such important and intimate expressions with the rest of us Jae.I sometimes feel as if I also might go under.Thankfully deep depression is as far as I've been so far but I have a close relative who's been all the way that you describe,also friends. Black people in England are no strangers to nervous breakdowns,in particular the males.