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Modest increases in interest rates, petrol prices and the like – let alone unemployment or a relationship breakdown – can be disastrous.

Although there's nothing friendly about a river of blood in a corridor, mental breakdown can be just as frightening as physical horror.

Given that elephants in the wild are now exhibiting aberrant behaviors that were long observed in captive elephants, it perhaps follows that a positive working model for how to ameliorate the effects of elephant breakdown can be found in captivity.

As David Bell says, 'When someone has spent their whole life functioning in a certain way, breakdown can be an opportunity for change.' There are also circumstances under which breaking down is an entirely rational response.

The filmmakers knew that scenes of drunken and druggy carousal are just as boring to watch in movies as in life, but that throat-clutching anxiety, mounting in shrill hysteria to the point of breakdown, can be riotous and engulfing.

Even with better income data, racial breakdowns can be misleading.

Procter & Gamble consists of 23 different mathematical and statistical tools that predict why an assembly line would fail and how those breakdowns can be minimized.

Masking Pain, or Healing It Breakdowns can be caused by a variety of factors, including poor track surface and jockey mistakes.

According to Alfred McCoy, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, who has written a history of the C.I.A.'s experiments in coercing subjects, the agency learned that "if subjects are confined without light, odors, sound, or any fixed references of time and place, very deep breakdowns can be provoked".

WORST: Genre breakdowns can be dizzying.