'Nervous breakdown'

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Also going to post this under Employment Issues. Question is what does the term 'Nervous breakdown' in terms of the workplace mean or suggest to you?

Outdated and stigmatising, or something else?

I don’t think it’s stigmatising as people tend to understand mental health matters better than used to. I would just see it as exactly as it sounds , that someone isn’t coping and not able to manage life and tasks the way they might when well

In my opinion it’s an outdated and ill-informed catch-all term from the dark ages that denotes non-specific emotional/psychological difficulties. It means nothing in and of itself. It could denote depression, anxiety, stress, mania, a psychotic episode etc etc etc.
It’s from the dark ages when anyone struggling with the above would be spoken about in whispered tones and broad ill-informed terms. And anyone with cancer would be described in a whisper as having “the big C”.