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  2. Mental disorder - Wikipedia

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    The terms "mental breakdown" or "nervous breakdown" may be used by the general population to mean a mental disorder. [20] The terms "nervous breakdown" and "mental breakdown" have not been formally defined through a medical diagnostic system such as the DSM-5 or ICD-10 and are nearly absent from scientific literature regarding mental illness.

  3. Combat stress reaction - Wikipedia

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    (2) If the breakdown is of such severity as to necessitate a long period of rest and treatment in the United Kingdom. (3) If the disability is anxiety neurosis of a severe type. (4) If the disability is a mental breakdown or psychosis requiring treatment in a mental hospital.

  4. Nervous breakdown (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Nervous breakdown" is a term for a mental disorder with no agreed-upon medical definition. Nervous breakdown may also refer to: Dissociative disorder, conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception

  5. Neurasthenia - Wikipedia

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    The medical term neurasthenia is translated as Chinese shenjing shuairuo (simplified Chinese: 神经衰弱; traditional Chinese: 神經衰弱; pinyin: shénjīng shuāiruò; Cantonese Yale: sàhngīng sēuiyeuhk) or Japanese shinkei-suijaku (神経衰弱), both of which also translate the common term nervous breakdown.

  6. Acute stress reaction - Wikipedia

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    The sympathetic nervous system also stimulates the skeletal system and muscular system to pump more blood to those areas to handle the acute stress. Simultaneously, the sympathetic nervous system inhibits the digestive system and the urinary system to optimize blood flow to the heart, lungs, and skeletal muscles.

  7. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    Hans Selye defined stress as “the nonspecific (that is, common) result of any demand upon the body, be the effect mental or somatic.” [5] This includes the medical definition of stress as a physical demand and the colloquial definition of stress as a psychological demand. A stressor is inherently neutral meaning that the same stressor can ...

  8. Robbie Williams opens up on having ‘mental breakdown ... - AOL

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    Singer Robbie Williams has revealed he suffered a mental health breakdown “in front of thousands of people” in a new Netflix documentary which looks back at his career. The programme, which ...

  9. Paradoxical laughter - Wikipedia

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    Paradoxical laughter has been consistently identified as a recurring emotional-cognitive symptom in schizophrenia diagnosis. Closely linked to paradoxical laughter is the symptom; inappropriate affect, defined by the APA Dictionary of Psychology as "emotional responses that are not in keeping with the situation or are incompatible with expressed thoughts or wishes". [3]