| Mental breakdown is another name for nervous | | | | due to exposure to extreme or unremitting and |
| breakdown in the medical terms. It is related with the | | | | overwhelming stress. |
| mental illness of person. The disorder takes place | | | | A majority of people suffer from this disorder mainly |
| mostly due to depression. During the yesteryears, this | | | | due to failure in life or something else. Failure affects a |
| disorder was known as melancholia, vapors, neuralgic | | | | person's morale and depreciates his self esteem and |
| disease, neurasthenia and prostration. Initially, all the | | | | conscious. When a person is morally low, he may |
| doctors and the medical professionals assumed it to | | | | easily enter into mental depression that leads to |
| be a disorder of the nervous system. | | | | nervous breakdown. Thus, it is seen that mental |
| Mental breakdown can also be called severe attack of | | | | breakdown may affect any one at any point of time. |
| mental illness. There are a number of causes for | | | | A person can come out of a mental breakdown with |
| mental breakdown and they include stress, unresolved | | | | the help of a doctor or a psychiatrist. If a person |
| grief, career burnout, social stress, unemployment, | | | | cannot come out of failure then he is more prone to |
| divorce, death, deceived by a loved one and failure. | | | | mental breakdown for the second time also. Some |
| The mental illness includes depression due to some | | | | people have breakdowns which were bound to |
| factors in life, psychosis, dissociation, post traumatic | | | | happen. The cause of such type of depression is due |
| stress disorder, anxiety and severe stress. | | | | to genetic disorder like schizophrenia or bi polar |
| Then later on they realized that the disorder is due to | | | | depression. |
| a disease in the mind of the person. The catalog in | | | | Other causes of mental breakdown: |
| today's medical world includes a number of scientific | | | | Other causes of breakdown might include chronic and |
| diagnoses that are present in the DSM-IV. The DSM-IV | | | | unresolved grief, unemployment, academic problems, |
| integrates psychotic break schizophrenic episode, | | | | career burnout, social stress, post-war trauma, chronic |
| manic break, post traumatic stress disorder, panic | | | | insomnia and other sleep disorders. Many other kinds |
| attack. | | | | of problems like serious or chronic illness of a family |
| Failure, a cause of mental breakdown | | | | member, divorce, death of a family member, |
| The causes of mental breakdown vary from person | | | | pregnancy, a traumatic, violent, or near-death |
| to person. It is a temporary illness that gets reduced as | | | | experience and deception by a loved one or rape also |
| time passes by. A nervous breakdown mainly occurs | | | | might lead to mental breakdown. |