Medically reviewed by Michael MacIntyre, MDMedically reviewed by Michael MacIntyre, MD A nervous breakdown refers to a period of intense and severe emotional symptoms like panic, anxiety, and distress ...

How is the nervous breakdown different from depression? There are two kinds of depression. One is melancholic, the deep sadness, the slowed thinking, the despair. This is the same thing as a nervous ...

Psychiatric diagnosis is badly in need of shaking up, but it didn’t happen in the new DSM-5 launched several months ago. The new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual just trims at the ...