What causes nervous breakdown?
Dear Bunmi, My wife of 17 years had a nervous breakdown when she lost her job – I guess she was concerned by the loss of income and her inability to get new employment. With her redundancy money, she went into the catering business with a close friend but that too hit the rocks. She started behaving in a bizarre way and was diagnosed with personality disorder. She’s responding to treatment but her behaviour scares me. Why do people have mental breakdown? Azu, By E-mail Dear Azu, I’m sorry to learn about your wife. As the doctor must have assured you, personality disorder is treatable illness. This term, accordingly to medical definition, covers a range of attitudes and behaviour, including delusion of grandeur, paranoia or obsessive compulsive disorder. It can be genetic, developed from childhood neglect trauma, occur in periods of stress, or appear for unknown reasons. Psychotherapy and drugs may help. Another form of mental breakdown is manic depression, also called bipolar, it i
