One of the hardest things to face after a breakdown is facing the stigma (both real and perceived) that occurs in the workplace.
The best actress award went to Isabelle Adjani, one of France's biggest stars, who collected her fifth Cesar playing against her glamorous image to portray a dowdy teacher facing breakdown in "La journee de la jupe" (Skirt Day).
Their trade organisation, the Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA), wrote to Mr Geithner on February 13th warning him that the entire industry, which is the largest manufacturing employer in the country, was facing "breakdown".
That breakdown left Campbell facing an uncertain future, but with further recovery and the assistance of the Black Cats' medical staff, there was light at the end of the tunnel.
Like Steven in "The Cobweb," Minnelli's typical hero is a morbidly sensitive artist, often facing a breakdown or recovering from one.
Many people, including the lawyers I speak to who represent families facing the breakdown of such arrangements, struggle with the uncomfortable question of whether it can ever be in the best interests of a child to be conceived for the purpose of being removed from the woman who gave birth to that child, and what the long-term psychological and emotional consequences of that removal might be.
David Sparks, the LGA vice-chairman, said the announcement meant some councils would have seen their funding cut by 40% in five years and were now facing "financial breakdown".
One of Alan Ayckbourn's most underrated qualities is his ability to write brilliant roles for women; he has never faced the problem you suggest of pitching idiosyncratic women and making them the centre of his plays; often, in fact, they are facing severe mental breakdowns, as in Absurd Person Singular or Woman in Mind, where it isn't just about going for easy laughs.
At any given respected breakfast joint you'll find couples facing potential relationship breakdown, all before 11.30am.
By the end of the 1980s, the Soviet system was facing an economic breakdown more severe and far-reaching than the worst capitalist crisis of the 1930s.
