Feeling like life is too much to handle? Discover what a mental breakdown really means, the warning signs to watch for, and how to take steps toward relief before stress takes over.

The term "nervous breakdown" is often used to describe episodes of overwhelming stress. But mental health professionals abandoned the expression years ago. "If you are hearing the term now, you are ...

Medically there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. But when a successful businessman, after meeting a series of setbacks, develops crotchets and then suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician ...

Should the term “nervous breakdown” be embraced again? One of my (Michael’s) favorite journalists, Jerry Useem, provides a fascinating look at the history of the nervous breakdown in this article he ...

In her book Love Lucy, Ball said she came to New York for a consultation with Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a minister and author of The Power of Positive Thinking. She said he led her to see Dr. Smiley ...

Apple has put in development a television series adaptation of Pedro Almodovar‘s 1988 black comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, with former Jane The Virgin star Gina Rodriguez set to ...