"Nervous breakdown" and "mental breakdown" are outdated terms for a mental health crisis. A "nervous breakdown" is not an official diagnosis, but you may use it to describe a situation in which your ...

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"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 ...

Psychiatric diagnosis is badly in need of shaking up, but it didn’t happen in the new DSM-5 launched several months ago. The new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual just trims at the ...