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Example sentences for "nervous breakdown"

  • I read in the papers some years ago that you were suffering from neurasthenia and nervous breakdown,' I replied.

  • He had not taken to drinking as a consequence of nervous breakdown.

  • The fellow Durrant is on the high seas as a man who has had a nervous breakdown.

  • A second doctor on the committee remarked with a curious slight smile: "I said to myself when I first saw her this afternoon that Mrs. Smith had some of the symptoms of a nervous breakdown.

  • Was Concepcion merely under an illusion that she had had a nervous breakdown, or had she in truth had one, and was this singular interview a result of it?

  • And had she truly had a nervous breakdown, or was that fancy?

  • Sometimes these people were in a dreadful state of nervous breakdown.

  • And so there seems no question but that this terrible malady we call "nerves," or a nervous breakdown in any of its many forms, is in a majority of cases the result of the wrong eating habits of the individual.

  • A vicious circle is formed which very often leads to nervous breakdown.

  • Many a case of nervous breakdown has a beginning as simple as this, and people of nervous temperament must be constantly on guard against it.

  • But it must not be thought that these dreads cause only the trivial instances of nervous breakdown in which people never very capable give way before the strenuous call of commercial life in the large cities of our time.

  • I had a severe case of nervous breakdown and I've been working on the railroad for a change.

  • I have been suffering from a nervous breakdown and am going to try day labor for awhile.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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