What does a nervous breakdown feel like?

Answer 1

You feel all confused and you can't think rationally. It feels like the world is falling in on you and there's nothing you can do about it. For awhile you almost lose sense of who you are and what you are doing. I even feel like I lose all sense of reality and feel like I'm floating around in some horrible nightmare. Before I get a nervous breakdown, my heart usually starts pumping really fast and my breathing gets uneasy, and confusion starts to set in. That's when I start to try to calm down before it starts to set in.

Answer 2

They're different for everyone, and caused by a variety of different things. Even just simple factors, depending on how stressed or close to the edge you are.
Usually a breakdown is what it sounds like; you fall down mentally in a broken, out of control emotional state. Most people get severe panic attacks where they're so terrified they can't even faint or vomit, while others just huddle up and sob for hours. It can be from frustration and explode with insane, irrational anger taken out on yourself or other people. Or all of the above. Either, most people feel an extreme desire to just die. Some of them take their own lives.
It's very traumatizing for most people, and some end up having them multiple times in a week, or even a day afterwards if the stress and factors persists and the problem remains unresolved.

Answer 3

Well considering that I had one in the beginning of November, I can help you out here. Apparantly though, mental health people don't call them nervous breakdowns anymore. They say "episodes" which is a crock of crap if you ask me.

A nervous breakdown feels as if you have imploded. You can't think, you can't speak, you maybe mumble incoherent things over and over (like I did). You can't move, you might be able to rock back and forth. You really feel as if your brain has shut down due to OVERWHELMING stress. That's the key factor. It's a horrible feeling.

Due to all of this, I have been hospitalized twice and have been in two partial hospitalization programs. They found out that mine was caused from disorders due to my Lyme Disease. But the thing that kicked it into high gear was extremely high stress.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

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What does a nervous breakdown feel like?

Answer 5

It literally paralyzes you. I couldn't think, sleep, eat, or do the simplest chore. I couldn't drive a car because I couldn't concentrate on driving. I felt like I was in a black hole and I was convinced I was dieing. Thank God for Cymbalta

Answer 6

This sounds dumb, but if you had one, you'd know.
The experience is different for everyone, but most people feel a desolate, hopelessness, loneliness feeling with many negative emotions.

Answer 7

nothing to wish on ANYONE!!!!!!!!! Not even your enemy!
feeling of the end, like nothing is left, crying, panic, anxiety, you can't move, you are so tired, you can't talk, the words won't come out, and if they do, they make no sense. feeling of totally being overwhelmed, heaviness takes over your entire body.
worst feeling ever!!!!!!!!!!! If you are feeling any of this, or know someone who is, please get help asap!

Answer 8

yes they r called episodes now i think coz n one wants 2 be held responsable 4 driving some 1 crazy coz they'd be taken 2 court 4 mental asult n cruelty. nor dose the system want 2 be held acountable 4 its failer 2 get 2 the root of an indeviduals problem n truly help them.

Answer 9

you are ready to just die and you have alot of stress on your hands and you need to just relax when you have one i have had one trust me been there, done that, don't want to go back!

Answer 10

like you want to die.