What is a more sophisticated and technical term for a “nervous/mental breakdown”?
Posted on December 3, 2009
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Shane M asked:
I’m writing a short story for my english class and i need a really professional, acurate and technical description of my characters “mental breakdown”. For example, something like “he had suffered an acute dissasociative function in mental capacity resulting in cognitive and physiological stress”. Now obviously that makes no sense but it sounds smart, yes. Can anyone help me? =]
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You are just writing a whole load of professionally sounding gobbledygook. It will not allow the reader to fully follow yr characters flaws or foibles nor absorb what’s actually happening to them. You could use terms like diagnosed with “paranoid schizophrenia coupled with bi-polar”. Don’t add words that are unnecessary in developing yr characters melt-down. It sounds a bit silly unless you are writing a TV script for interaction between a couple of doctors. Good luck
well the term nervous breakdown is not even used in the medical field anymore. try looking up transmarginal inhibition – same meaning
a psychotic episode.
Main Entry: nervous breakdown
Synonyms:
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