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Anybody know what is the difference between a person suffering from severe depression and having a nervous breakdown.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.A friend of mine was clinically depressed for years and tried many treatments and medications including electroconvulsive therapy. Usually she could live at home and coped. When she really couldn’t cope and had to be sectioned her family said she was suffering a nervous breakdown. It seemed to be an accepted term that most people understood.
Really, her illness was just much worse than usual.
Really, her illness was just much worse than usual.
It's very subtle isn't it? It's probably the point at which someone loses any control over their mind, feelings and reactions. That really is as far as I can go.
I've suffered from depression - in fact 'severe depression', if you count in being tempted to drive your car at high speed into a tree. But I have never crossed the point into 'nervous breakdown'. That's one for the medics and I've been on the point of driving my car into a tree - but somehow survived and here to not only tell the tale, but tell others that life is not always narrowing and that all can be well.
I've suffered from depression - in fact 'severe depression', if you count in being tempted to drive your car at high speed into a tree. But I have never crossed the point into 'nervous breakdown'. That's one for the medics and I've been on the point of driving my car into a tree - but somehow survived and here to not only tell the tale, but tell others that life is not always narrowing and that all can be well.