The phrase "a sort of breakdown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that resembles a breakdown, often in a metaphorical sense, such as emotional or systematic failure.
Example: "After weeks of stress and pressure, she experienced a sort of breakdown that left her feeling completely overwhelmed."
Alternatives: "a kind of collapse" or "a type of failure".
She is unaware that she has awoken the spirits of her parents …" and has a sort of breakdown while reliving the traumatic summer of her ninth year.
Two years ago, she had "a sort of breakdown" that she managed to keep hidden from all but her closest friends and family.
Robert's weirdly affectless response to their deaths makes him the centre of attention, gets him assigned to make a documentary memorialising the twins, leads to his first fumbling sexual experience and culminates in a sort of breakdown.
Tony and Cherie Blair's former "lifestyle coach", Carole Caplin, has revealed that she regrets ever having worked for the former prime minister and his wife because of the resulting press coverage, which contributed to a "sort of breakdown" two years ago.
Previously one of the biggest ad directors in Britain, Kaye got into trouble after editing his feature debut for too long, and when the film studio took it away from him, he fought them in the trade press, sued them, took rabbis, priests and monks to meetings, then had a sort of breakdown.
There are many types of psychotic breakdown, but people tend to have altered experiences defined by losing touch with reality - having delusions and hallucinations and other strange experiences, like travelling on the bus and not thinking, "I hate it because I think they're looking at me" but "They are looking at me".' Key to understanding any sort of breakdown is understanding 'why'why
Then one day he fell heavily, and succumbed to a sort of nervous breakdown.
I've got 100 years, 51percentnt of the population, no structure.' I had a sort of constructive breakdown and then told myself I had to get over it.
"The perfect tense has all sorts of irregular endings, varies greatly across the conjugations, and is the point where verbs have a sort of nervous breakdown and go into meltdown," he writes.
Assessing their costs, their risks, their marketability, attending doggedly to every detail, Mr Littlejohn provides a sort of deadpan breakdown of what will pass as saleable poshness with the public.Mr Littlejohn is an American; he carries no social baggage.
Collecting these bin-ends in an edition that more closely resembles a CD reissue for a 1990s rock band than a printed book speaks not of overconfidence so much as a sort of nervous breakdown in the Faber marketing department.
