Feeling like life is too much to handle? Discover what a mental breakdown really means, the warning signs to watch for, and how to take steps toward relief before stress takes over.

The term "nervous breakdown" is often used to describe episodes of overwhelming stress. But mental health professionals abandoned the expression years ago. "If you are hearing the term now, you are ...

Medically there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. But when a successful businessman, after meeting a series of setbacks, develops crotchets and then suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician ...

When I was a junior in high school my Spanish teacher started behaving very strangely. She became increasingly agitated and defensive, and the class, sensing her emotional frailty, responded as a pack ...

When I was a junior in high school my Spanish teacher started behaving very strangely. She became increasingly agitated and defensive, and the class, sensing her emotional frailty, responded as a pack ...

Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...

April 1935 was a nervous month. Unemployment in America stood at 20 percent. A potential polio vaccine was failing trials. The term Dust Bowl made its first appearance in newsprint. A thousand-mile ...