Sentence examples for physical and mental breakdown from inspiring English sources
The younger Roebling suffered a physical and mental breakdown so severe that he became a recluse.
In the second half, Spain suffered an unprecedented physical and mental breakdown.
On the verge of a physical and mental breakdown, vilified as a Trotskyist by former colleagues, he escaped with Kulcsar to Paris, penniless and desperate.
This precipitated a physical and mental breakdown that darkened the rest of his life with weak health and bouts of morphine addiction.
Hunt's first book didn't quite fulfil the promise of its audacious conceit, but her second is nothing short of stunning: an adventure story, a psychological investigation of physical and mental breakdown, and a remarkable account of weather and endeavour.
The correspondence by Apsley Cherry-Garrardescribeses his torment both on the expedition and on finding the frozen bodies of his doomed companions, his subsequent physical and mental breakdown, and the team's acute fear of being perceived as failures back home because their Norwegian rival, Roald Amundsen, had reached the South Pole a month before them.
Whereas the TeraSys chapters of "Plowing the Dark" have an effete air, the Beirut sections ruthlessly convey one man's physical collapse and mental breakdown.
Bergman's own rude contact with raw places and events in these films is a central part of the films' fundamental drama, the breach in middle-class sophistication resulting from contact with the raw side of life, with the elemental threats of physical destruction and mental breakdown.
At some rave, I asked them to explain how they've avoided the dangers of partying for a living for decades, such as physical ruin, mental breakdown, poverty, or, god forbid, children.
Over time, there were bankruptcies, blackouts, and breakdowns, physical and mental.
Cherry-Garrard, who had joined the expedition aged 24, suffered a breakdown, both physical and mental, in the months after the loss of Scott's party, a period he describes in the correspondence as "about the worst time I have ever had … it has been an absolute hell".
