nervous breakdown

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In real life the drowning woman was his wife Francine, who tried to live with his numerous affairs but eventually had a nervous breakdown.
在真实的生活中，这位溺水女人是他的妻子弗朗辛。她努力在他数不胜数的桃色事件中生存，但是最终罹患精神崩溃。
"I was going through a nervous breakdown at that moment," she recalled. "There was no one standing during the test, except for a woman and the male doctor.
她回忆到，“在那一刻我紧张得快要崩溃了，”“检查时，出了一名男医生和一名妇女外没有其他人，但是有几个士兵站在我们的身后，面对着床的反面。
Not to mention the loss of his sweetheart at the age of 26 and suffering a nervous breakdown at 27.
更不用说他在26岁的时候失去了他的妻子，又在27岁时经历了精神崩溃。

There is a nervous breakdown that actually happens right here in New Haven in one of these novels.
其中一本小说提到,就在我们所处的纽黑文发生的精神崩溃事件。
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At age 20, he had a nervous breakdown.
二十岁时，他精神崩溃了。
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a period of mental illness, usually without a physical cause, that results in anxiety, difficulty in sleeping and thinking clearly, a loss of confidence and hope, and a feeling of great sadness

If someone has a nervous breakdown, they become extremely depressed and cannot cope with their normal life.