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The phrase "almost went mad" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a feeling of extreme frustration, stress, or confusion that nearly leads to losing one's sanity.
Example: "After dealing with the endless paperwork and constant interruptions, I almost went mad trying to finish the project on time."
Alternatives: "nearly lost my mind" or "was on the verge of insanity."
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Yes, my mother almost went mad.
Even Robert Smith thinks it's a dud, but perhaps that's because he almost went mad making it.
Bruno says he almost went mad from loneliness in Finland and that he saw how bound he was to his wife.
"It's just me alone with my new baby and the debt people are calling me all the time, telling me: 'You have to pay.' I almost went mad," she said.
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The exhibition, entitled At Last I've Found You I Was Almost Going Mad, was a collection of the pair's famous T-shirt designs, sweaters, tunic dresses and tartan skirts all in a very high-street style.
Most of the young actors were probably unaware of the enormous pain she had suffered on the way, nightmarish even by theatrical standards; they didn't see a 42-year-old woman who had almost gone mad but a radiant sibyl with a magic formula.
St Jerome even claimed in the fourth century that Lucretius (about whose life we know almost nothing) went mad with love, and then killed himself.
Crown Prince Dipendra [of Nepal] went mad and shot almost all his family during dinner.
Others went mad...
Why everyone went mad.
She eventually went mad.
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