What happens durind a nervous breakdown and why do they happen?!
Question: What happens durind a nervous breakdown and why do they happen!?
Also, can they bring on other disoders as a result!. I think I began to have a nervous breakdown the toehr day, but with the help of my loving mother who scolded me for acting like a spoiled brat, I was able to dissociate from it!. Now its floating somewhere in my head waiting to rear its ugly head another day!. I already have major depressive disorder, i'm just really worried that if i let myself have this nervous breakdown, i'm never gonna be the same and spend the rest of my life in a mental intistituion!. Has this ever happened to anyone else!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
I've struggled with depression/panic attacks for most of my life, but it wasn't until I finished my 1st year of graduate school that I had a true breakdown!. I was extremely depressed and had what felt like a non-stop panic attack for about 2 weeks straight!. I got to a point where I felt unreal, like I was dead and viewing the world from the outside!. I though I was dying, and I felt totally hopeless - like things would never get better!. I was afraid to leave the house because I felt like I would fly off the face of the earth, or something truly horrible was going to happen!. I finally couldn't take it anymore, and I went to a mental health clinic!. They started me on an antidepressant (prozac) and an anti-anxiety medication (xanax)!. I felt immediate relief from the severe anxiety with the xanax, but the prozac took almost a month before it did anything for my depression!. However, I was able to maintain enough to continue with classes in the fall!.
The breakdown definitely changed my life - but for the better!. I started therapy (I'm still in it) and working on a lot of issues with my childhood that I have always tried to ignore (or dissociate from)!. I still get bouts of feeling emptiness/meaninglessness, but they are nowhere near as bad as they were before, and they go away pretty fast!. My anxiety has decreased dramatically, and I still have xanax on hand if a panic attack comes up!.
But, no, you do not have to feel this way the rest of your life or be committed to a mental institution (btw: that is very rare these days)!. You just need to get help!. Depression and panic disorder are real diseases, and they need appropriate treatment!. They are unlikely to go away by themselves!. Have you tried talking to you mother about what you are going through!? If she will not listen, is there someone at your school you can talk to!? Like a guidance counselor or school psychologist!? Holding off the breakdown is just postponing the inevitable!. The sooner you get help, the sooner you will feel better!. I wish I sought help a lot sooner than I did!.
Hope this helps, and good luck with everything!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
The breakdown definitely changed my life - but for the better!. I started therapy (I'm still in it) and working on a lot of issues with my childhood that I have always tried to ignore (or dissociate from)!. I still get bouts of feeling emptiness/meaninglessness, but they are nowhere near as bad as they were before, and they go away pretty fast!. My anxiety has decreased dramatically, and I still have xanax on hand if a panic attack comes up!.
But, no, you do not have to feel this way the rest of your life or be committed to a mental institution (btw: that is very rare these days)!. You just need to get help!. Depression and panic disorder are real diseases, and they need appropriate treatment!. They are unlikely to go away by themselves!. Have you tried talking to you mother about what you are going through!? If she will not listen, is there someone at your school you can talk to!? Like a guidance counselor or school psychologist!? Holding off the breakdown is just postponing the inevitable!. The sooner you get help, the sooner you will feel better!. I wish I sought help a lot sooner than I did!.
Hope this helps, and good luck with everything!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I had one 3 years ago and was never the same!. There is no hard and fast definition of one, its a series of psychological and physiological changes and can manifest itself as emotionally lability and the inability to do things you previously found easy, extreme tiredness, inability to sleep, and possibly continuous crying!. What can ensue as a result of the 'neurosis' which occurs during a nervous breakdown, usually caused from prolonged, uninterrupted stress is depression, anxiety disorders and such like; in my case, it was both!.Www@Answer-Health@Com