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nervous breakdown

 noun
     
Related topics: Illness and Disability, Psychology, Psychiatry
nervous breakdown [countable]
MP a mental illness in which someone becomes extremely anxious and tired and cannot deal with the things they usually do:
Colin came close to having a nervous breakdown last year.
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