#nervous breakdown

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ↗

— Earl Wilson

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I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. ↗

— Andy Gibb

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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. ↗

— Roald Dahl

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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

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I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally. ↗

— Brian Cox

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