nervous breakdown

nervous breakdown
    n 1: a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder
    

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "nervous breakdown":
      brain disease, breakdown, circulatory collapse, collapse, crack-up,
      crackup, emotional disorder, emotional instability, exhaustion,
      frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, functional nervous disorder,
      insanity, jangled nerves, maladjustment,
      manic-depressive psychosis, melancholia, mental disorder,
      mental illness, nervous disorder, nervous exhaustion,
      nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neurosis, paranoia,
      personality disorder, problems in living, prostration, psychosis,
      raw nerves, reaction, schizophrenia, shattered nerves,
      social maladjustment, twanging nerves