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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

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In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Frequent thoughts of self-harm or suicide. Sleep disturbances.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

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Anxiety so strong it tightened my chest to a choking point and made me feel like cutting myself to bleed the anxious feelings out of my system. Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available.