What exactly is a nervous breakdown and what are the warning signs?
Nervous Breakdown refers to a wide range of experiences where someone experiences severe depression: They can’t sleep, they feel on edge, they have negative thoughts about themselves, they feel more and more hopeless and then one day just can’t get out of bed. Social roles collapse. They fail to keep doing their day-to-day job and playing their usual part in family/ social life. Sense of reality is lost. Physical signs may accompany depression, including: Diarrhoea, constipation, IBS, back pain, breathing problems, migraines, insomnia, low libido, a disrupted menstrual cycle. Emotional symptoms include: Constant worrying, anxiety, feeling everything is out of your control and you are trapped. Behavioural pointers include: Mood swings, tantrums, constant fidgeting, withdrawal from normal life.
Well im not sure if wat I had was a nervous breakdown but im sure it was pretty close. At the time I was pusjing my body too much by going to the gym four times a week and having very little to eat. At the same time I was living in a new place where I had to make new friends etc… I was also studying and had exams and was stressed about all this. On top of that I found myself regretting a lot of things that had happened in the past. One weekend I went home from Uni absolutely exhausted both physically and mentally so my mum suggested that I go to the doctor to see what was wrong. He told me that I was doing too much and becoming affected by the stress so I had to literally take 3 months off everything and start uni a whole year later- I think it did me good in some way but ive never been able to gain back my full motivation. I find that I have to work more now just to fulfil my ambitions whearas previously I had too much motivation for the ‘wrong’ things. Hope this is relevant.
