Mental breakdown

With a nervous breakdown is a colloquial, imprecise term for a mental state of emergency, usually after traumatic experiences such as accidents, natural disasters or deaths, but also as a result of long -lasting, zehrendem stress of all kinds with continued burnout.

It corresponds to the currently common psychiatric diagnostic system ICD -10 ( International Classification Of Diseases ) are most likely of acute stress disorder (ICD - 10 F43.0 ) or post-traumatic stress disorder (ICD - 10 F43.1 ).