Whew! Mental Breakdown!

Uh, yeah. So I had a mental breakdown yesterday. Haha.

I often wonder what other people consider mental breaks? Emotional based, reality based, etc?

LoneKiller said:

There are so many different variations from people to people I'm sure.

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So I find this interesting and Wiki lists Mental breakdown as:

"Mental breakdown (also known as a nervous breakdown) is an acute, time-limited phase of a specific disorder that manifests primarily with features of depression or anxiety."

See I would not call a Mental Breakdown in relationship to reasoning/reality a nervous condition, more a disconnection of cognition. Now an Emotion Breakdown, the definition makes more sense then.

...and...

"The terms "nervous breakdown" and "mental breakdown" have not been formally defined through a diagnostic system such as the DSM-IV or ICD-10, and are nearly absent from current scientific literature regarding mental illness. Although "nervous breakdown" does not necessarily have a rigorous or static definition, surveys of laypersons suggest that the term refers to a specific acute time-limited reactive disorder, involving symptoms such as anxiety or depression, usually precipitated by external stressors.

Specific cases are sometimes described as a "breakdown" only after a person becomes unable to function in day-to-day life."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_breakdown

Well that really didn't clarify it for me. "Day-to-day life?" Does this mean it is really defined by some duration of time? I've had what I considered mental 'breaks' in my time, but I can't say any lasted at the 'apex of severity' for over a day. God, that would be horrible! That sounds like the type of thing where you wake up in a 'ward' and had no idea of how you got there.

Wessik, how are you doing now?

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HA! Looking at definitions I found this image. I get that she is about to listen to my lungs...but where does her other hand think it's going?

Ehehe...^.^;

Pretty bad at the moment. I'm hanging in there. Imagine someone strapping you down and continuously injecting adrenaline into your system. That's kind of how on edge I am right now. At the moment, I'm waiting to get put on some medication. It's been a tough two weeks.

But thanks to everyone here. I've been lurking around, thou I didn't dare trust myself enough to post! ^.^;

Thanks. I'll keep you updated.

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Tsk,tsk, what horrible grammar I have. XD.