Talk:Mental breakdown

message: At a glance, that website doesn't seem to support very much of what is said here; in fact, the way I read it, it's kind of contradictory to acute attack of mental illness such as depression or anxiety; the website linked claims the term "nervous breakdown" is used to conceal more serious disorders because of stigma and then goes on with a laundry list of disorders with symptoms similar to those described in the article, which sounds like it'd fit better here, to me. Then again, I know bupkis about psychology, so I'm hoping some way more capable hands come along.  - Ambientlight 18:53, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can tell, this article should be VfD'ed in its current state, if it isn't cleaned up. I have some experience with many of the things colloquially referred to as mental breakdowns, and this article is seriously off, based on my own experiences and that of others. Zuiram 15:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cites 

message: This article does not include the information that the term "Nervous Breakdown" was replaced by "Dissociative Mental Break."
A private psychology project on the Internet argues that these mental events are actually outcomes of exposure to "Visual Subliminal Distraction."
The phenomenon and conflict of the physiology of sight that causes exposure can be demonstrated with a small experiment. 
http://visionandpsychosis.net/a_demonstration_you_can_do.htm
Mental events like nervous breakdowns happen around the world where the special circumstances are created by living conditions.
http://visionandpsychosis.net/Culture_Bound_Syndromes.htm
The index page is:
http://VisionAndPsychosis.Net
L K Tucker 68.223.108.236 15:24, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Without any medical documentation, this has no place in the article. Also, I'd say it seems pretty dubious. I see no correlation here, and have experienced brief reactive psychosis both in the strong presence and complete absence of the distractions they warn against. This is congruent with what all non-epileptics I know have experienced: no correlation. Zuiram 15:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:   Sudden Dissociative Mental Break 

message: I removed the recent laundry list of possible improvements because it was so long as to be unhelpful.  This is a WP:STUB.  Of course it needs improvement.  If you want to tag the article with the most important issues, then that's fine with me.  However, a list of ten different problems is more likely to leave editors feeling overwhelmed instead of inspiring them to action.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:33, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Tags

message: I've been told that drinking coffee when nervous can lead to a nervous breakdown. Is there any credibility on this? - .:. Jigsy .:. (talk) 15:05, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry, this isn't an internet chat board.  This page is for discussing improvements to this article.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:46, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I was actually thinking about "Potential Causes", but whatever ... - .:. Jigsy .:. (talk) 08:25, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that if you overdose on caffeine (from any source), you can get symptoms similar to a panic attack, which isn't exactly the same thing as a mental breakdown, but might be easily confused.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:44, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Caffeine

message: "surveys of laypersons suggest that the term refers to a specific acute time-limited reactive disorder, involving symptoms of anxiety and depression, usually precipitated by external stressors" is complate bs. No layperson ever said that. Applying an apparently scientific description to "non-scientific" data is misleading at best. I would put it in a similar categorisation to the concept of a computer program having "a bug" in that the person saying so might realise that something is not right but having little or no concept of what is causing the problem (or more likely having little care to be bothered with what the particular problem may be).
This article should, in my opinion, be strictly reduced to a brief (non-scientific-sounding) description of the general idea of what the la(z)yperson's  understanding (or care-factor) is with a list of related articles, synonyms, etc. The current definition appears to be a straw poll of what the people around the water-cooler think it means, and having an "encyclopeadic" definition based on that is just lame. If the definition is based on such a straw poll, then the psych-science should show that.
Spxl (talk)
:spxl seems to be a straw man, and therefore no longer concerned with this response, but I'll offer it anyway: the quote says "surveys...suggest" not that any layperson ever said as such. This is an article about an uncategorized variety of illnesses, which not only don't fall into convenient little diagnoses, but have also been referred to by the public by this catch-all term for 100 years, give or take. As this article is about that term, it must also be nebulously defined, hence this - completely adequate, in my opinion - intro.PacificBoy 21:11, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: And doesn't "surveys...suggest" set alarm bells ringing (here or elsewhere)? If there have been surveys, let there be a proper citation.  Note that footnote 3's link [] does not yield any reference to a properly conducted survey.31.52.252.193 (talk) 23:59, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Freak-out

message: To my horror, I've seen enough people wandering into talk pages seeking anonymous Wikiusers' medical advice to remove this line as outright asking for trouble: "Seeking professional aid may be helpful in these situations."PacificBoy 21:14, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medical advice 

message: "temporarily overwhelm an individual with otherwise sound mental functions" (in the opening paragraph) vs. "often caused by serious ongoing mental health disorders" (at the end of the definition).  Maybe it's not strictly a contradiction, because (it may be) that the first applies to some people and the second to some other people.  Who knows?! 31.52.252.193 (talk) 23:55, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction? 

message: This term is a lay term for mental disorder per book published by Oxford University Press https://books.google.com/books?id=9JnuZHxvHykC&pg=PA1. Have merged there. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:37, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Lay term

message: I have redirected this page to a disambiguation page rather than the "Mental disorder" page.
Why? The term "mental breakdown" does not mean "mental disorder" in general, so it's a mistake to redirect visitors directly there. Rather, people looking for information on what they believe is called a mental breakdown should be informed that the term is invalid, and be guided towards the correct term. --Atkinson (talk) 20:29, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing redirect to a disambiguation page