How do you know if you're having a nervous breakdown?!

How do you know if you're having a nervous breakdown?

You always hear people talk about it, but what is it? Do you get physically ill, depressed, angry, etc. and what can cause it? Too much stress or traumatic events? Is it a recognized medical condition or is it just a saying?

Hi:

Well basically coming from someone who has been there and done that, so to speak and is starting on having one lately, basicallyit's horrible, you hate it and it just plain sucks (excuse me)!

The textbook version can give you an idea of what may or may not happen but each person is different and will react in a different way. Also equally important is what the minor triggers have been recently and what the last major trigger that is the one to push you over the edge. Those are important also.

So with all that being said, I can't speak for anyone else but right now this is how I am:

I can't stop the tears no matter how had I try, I see or find nothing in this world to even bring a crack of a smile to my face, I avoid everything...major stuff too like bills etc, no phone, only on YA now because you all bring to me comfort and I forget about everything else when I am here., I sleep, have nightmares, take my meds, but also forget to take them it's an on/off kind of thing which is baddddd. Physically for me is that I shake uncontrolably, increase in physical illnesses such as migraines increase in frequency and severity, blood pressure increases above my high level now, heart rate increases above my high level also, constantly sick to my stomach, lower leg edema severe brought on for me by stress, racing thoughts that are so bad you want to rip your head off but u know u can't but yet at the same time your thoughts feel empty, listlessness, cranky, hopelessness and possible thoughts of suicide, feeling as if you have failed everyone for one reason or another and my list just goes on.

At this point but better before is to call the doc right away. My problem is just plain stubborness. I want to beat it on my own. Sometimes embarrassed that I can't.

Some breakdowns can be treated out of the hospital, but others need to be admitted to the hospital for the proper treatment to pull you back into the land of the living.

I don't believe that you could experience anything as this or like this and not realize that something is wrong. Maybe the first time you have one, you just don't know what it is until someone tells you, but unofficially you know deep down inside.

Well, I hope this can help with some of the information that you are looking for.

Be safe and be well