Word: breakdowns
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...When Solomon had his first breakdown six years ago, he was a successful novelist, from a close-knit family, with a wide circle of friends. But shortly before his 31st birthday, "hell came to pay me a surprise visit." What followed is the hard stuff of severe depression. "My whole system seemed to be caving in," he writes. On his way home from the grocery store, he loses control of his bowels and soils himself. Over the following weeks, he becomes near-catatonic, unable to move, talk, eat or sleep. Aware of the ridiculousness of his situation, he nonetheless cannot...
Neil is fragile, remember. He had a breakdown from what was termed exhaustion not long before we arrived on campus and had to recuperate for several months walking tropical beaches. Maybe he was totally different before that. Either way, it shows how the job as it’s conceived of now could wear down a man, especially the kind of career administrator the school is likely to pick now. Neil has taken some stands in defense of affirmative action. He is not, however, a leading figure in that debate although his commitment to it is vigorous. Besides that...
...board will release the numerical breakdown of the votes, but not the names of who voted for each punishment, later this month...
March 17, 1999. One year, five months, 26 days into my Harvard career—and I was a boy on the verge of a nervous breakdown. By nature, I’m a pretty calm kid. I don’t tend to take things too seriously, I don’t hold tension in my neck, I don’t confuse the forest for the trees. But in the course of 24 hours, I was knocked...
Recipe for Nervous Breakdown...