The phrase "a personal breakdown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an individual's emotional or mental collapse, often due to stress or overwhelming circumstances.
Example: "After months of relentless pressure at work, she finally experienced a personal breakdown and needed to take time off to recover."
Alternatives: "emotional collapse" or "mental breakdown".
Joseph Lash, a confidant of Eleanor's for many years, said that her despair was so profound she was unable to take Communion, a devastating symptom of personal breakdown for a deeply religious woman.
Where Mr Russo likes to focus on the internal drama of personal breakdown, Ms Meloy is a connoisseur of noisier and more public crises the collection opens with a story about an aggrieved worker who unwittingly kidnaps a member of the Samoan royal family.
Spears's personal breakdown was also cited as an inspiration for Barry Manilow's album "15 Minutes".
"By the Sea" conjures the mood of erotic recklessness and discovery, along with a sense of loss — a time of heroic feats of self-liberation as well as of centrifugal forces throwing couples into crisis and making the personal dramatically public, of the veneer of glamour yielding to the urge for truth, of personal breakdown under the force of unresisted impulse.
A personal crisis precipitated a breakdown a few years later, and a cruel hiatus when nature – plant life above all – ceased to sustain Mabey as it had previously.
The myriad voices in Eliot's fractured evocation of a personal and collective nervous breakdown seemed to possess the actress as though she were some highly-strung medium.
I sat in my chair long after the curtain call feeling as though I'd voyeuristically witnessed a deeply personal emotional breakdown.
A personal crisis which precipitated the breakdown of his 15-year marriage, however, led to a request to be released from his five-year contract with the company.
On Tuesday, HBO said it had picked up a new season of "Enlightened," a series created by Laura Dern and Mike White and starring Ms. Dern as a woman who returns to her job after a breakdown and a personal reawakening.
