Nervous Breakdown over homework?
I am currently having a nervous breakdown because I have so much homework to finish by monday. I have to write 20 socratic seminar questions, read and memorize every detail of 5 chapters for APUSH, do 2 worksheets for spanish, statistics and physics homework, read 9 Chapters in teh Scarlet Letter, do an 8 page analysis over the scarlet letter and learn 40 vocab words. I don't even know what to start with. I am having the worst breakdown of my life. I can't learn 150 pages of American Pageant by monday!!!! And that's without the 3 poa and zinn. I can't even read the stupid Scarlet Letter and the packet is hard as HELL.....PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
I think I just had a nervous breakdown...?
Wow! You have a lot on your plate. Try not to beat yourself up over the 79 grade. I know it means a lot to you and it's good that you are concerned about your future. I'm sorry to hear that your home life is less than perfect. My parents fought constantly as I was growing up, too so I know what it's like. I don't know how to fix that problem - just know that you are not alone. I also competed with my sister in high school as far as grades so I relate there, too. This is not about me though. Your symptoms sound like you had an anxiety attack - a really bad one. If you continue to press yourself with grades, extracurriculars, and the stress of your home life, you may end up in a breakdown. Since money is tight for you, I would suggest finding a community resource (there's lots of them out there) where you can go talk to someone. They may find that you need medication temporarily for your anxiety. I would imagine you suffer from some sort of depression also with all this going on. I feel so bad for you. i wish I could do more but my only advice is to seek medical attention. There are free community services in your neighborhood. You just have to be patient and search. That's how i got myself on the road to recovery. I didn't have any money then either. I got free counseling, free meds, free classes on how to deal with stress, etc. It can do wonders. It sounds like you have the tenacity to do what it takes to help yourself. Good Luck and Best Wishes.
Does everyone have mental breakdowns?
We all have times of extreme emotional stress when we could benefit from professional care. Yes everyone.Not everyone has what I call in my writings the Positive Breakdown.The Positive Breakdown is painful but there is an purpose for the pain and a benefit to be gained. One feels anxious, emotional and confused in the process. But it is a process with a purpose.If it is a Positive Breakdown then it is the disintegration of an old style of being making way for a new you. Sorry if that sounds a little strange. I am, after all, a therapist trained in Psychology with a focus on life transformation.Children go through the disintegration of one level of adjustment and the integration of a higher level almost every year in the early years. However, with adults it is less frequent.There are major adjustment patterns in adults, however, they can ‘grow old’ and dysfunctional. Two examples of these patterns is People Pleasing and Super Responsible (codependent).When the disintegration begin to happen is can be very disorientating. It is frightening. But is can give a new lease on life. Not everyone will experience this and it does not always have the positive outcome I am talking about. But even in small ways everyone can have spontaneous positive breakdowns - shifts in our functioning and in our underlying core beliefs.
What happens when you have a nervous breakdown?
One of the times I "breakdown" was because I was experiencing prolonged stress with no relief. My last day at work I was walking through the halls of the hospital that I worked at both crying and laughing at the same time. Another time was when I was very depressed and I wanted to emotionally escape my pain. I dissociated and became psychotic. I was stuck in that state of mind for one month unable to stay present in the outside world. I believe having a "breakdown" is different for each person. I hope you have a stable life and never have to experience this kind of decomposition. Best Wishes to you.
Can teenagers have mental breakdowns? Did I have one?
I don't know if you'd call it a "mental breakdown", but I had the strangest experience about 2 and a half weeks ago. I'm 16 years old, by the way. I've been mildly depressed for 3 years now, but most of the time I can keep it in check. None of my friends or family knew I was depressed, mostly because I could control it pretty well. I'm a junior in high school -- those 2 1/2 weeks ago, I felt a sudden overwhelming rush of sadness. I had to call home "sick" because I felt nauseous with misery (I know that sounds dramatic and self-pitying, but I swear it was awful). I've never felt that way before, just suddenly for no reason just suicidal really. I went home, sat on the floor, and cried for 2 hours until I fell asleep. Usually when I get upset, I just take a nap and feel better when I wake up. This time, when I woke up I felt painfully overwhelmed with my life in front of me (since I'm only 16, I have quite a lot of living left to do... it scared me I guess). I cried for another hour... Went to doing homework, took a shower, ended up curling up on the floor of the shower crying again. I told my mom a little bit of how I was feeling, but not too much since she's stressed out herself. I went to bed that night, woke up the next morning, and went to school. I didn't cry until that night when I was alone, but I was fine all day and no one at school could guess how crazy I was the day before. I was able to smile and joke with my friends and none of them suspected a thing. Emotionally I felt perfectly normal again, but my body felt kind of sore and sluggish and my head was a little dizzy all day. At night I cried for maybe 5 minutes in my room. Since then, I haven't cried at all and I've been fine again. I don't know what's going on... Should I be worried? It wasn't PMS by the way, thanks. But yeah... I don't know what I should do, or if I should do anything at all, since I've been okay lately. Please help! And sorry for writing so much.
At what age do people usually have nervous breakdowns?
Nervous breakdowns can happen at any age, and are more related to stressful circumstances, like marriage or relationship breakup, careers not going to plan, death of a parent etc. More serious psychotic episodes are more likely at the most stress-filled age (for most people): 16–25. Part of the reason for that is that people in that age group also have the least capacity to deal with their own stress, and are also most likely to involve themselves in activities increasing stress, sometimes due to to social pressure.
Am i having a mental breakdown, im 14?
Since what you're writing sounds like something really serious, you probably should get some professional help with it. I don't know whether that's a case for a psychologist or psychiatrist if you're really having a nervous breakdown, but you should definitely talk to someone who is skilled to give you a good advice. I'm sorry that I can't really help you.
Is crying out of nowhere a mental breakdown?
“Mental breakdown” has long been a common notion in the popular vernacular, particularly in the movies of the silver screen era, with no actual technical meaning in the mental health field. As near as I can tell, from the uses of the term that I can recall, it connotes a sudden loss of previously normal functioning due to non-specific psychiatric symptoms (could be psychosis, anxiety, depression, etc) severe enough to completely impair ordinary adaptive functioning. This results in either hospitalization or, for well heeled mansion dwellers, closely supervised bed rest for prolonged periods, replete with late night housecalls from the family’s personal physician. (C’mon, we’ve all seen those movies, haven’t we?)As suggested above, mental beakdown, a.k.a., nervous breakdown or collapse refers to an acute condition with rapid onset, though, I don’t believe, there is a suggestion of equally rapid remission, which is somewhat at variance with the more typical pattern of “easy come / easy go” with mental health problems.So getting to the question, a mental breakdown seems to refer to a sudden but more enduring condition than a sudden, and presumably fleeting fit of crying. What the OP refers to—a sudden outburst of crying with no precipitant, or out of proportion to the precipitant, is sometimes referred to as a hysterical outburst.