What is a mental breakdown​?A mental breakdown is an abnormal psychological state that occurs when the body is severely affected or in a chronic state of depression and anxiety. Symptoms of a breakdown manifest in three main areas: mood, cognition, and behavior.

Emotions

During a nervous breakdown, temperament may undergo significant changes, which vary from person to person. The main manifestations are extreme emotional excitement, laughing, crying, extreme nervousness, fear, inability to suppress emotions, and emotional apathy such as depression and numbness; and

Cognition

It generally manifests in three areas: perception, language and memory. It can lead to cognitive deficits such as impaired thinking, visual and auditory hallucinations, babbling, answering irrelevant questions, memory disorganization, sensitivity and skepticism; and

Behavior

Abnormal behaviors such as yelling, impulsive running away, running around, urinating, smashing objects for no reason, and hurting people may occur. In severe cases, self-harm or suicide may occur. It can also manifest itself in rigid behaviors such as hunger strikes, daydreaming, silence, and even generalized muscle tension and immobility.

When symptoms of mental breakdown occur, one should actively seek medical attention or help from others, seek professional medical help, and actively undergo psychological and pharmacological treatment to prevent deterioration of mental state and irreversible consequences.