For many years I have been puzzled by the difficulty classified this group of people. With a co-author I wrote a book called “Falling Apart-living with stress breakdown” in 1989. I wrote this because of a sense of frustration.  The term ‘breakdown’ did not appear in the professional literature however many people told me that they had had a breakdown and it seemed to have some general meaning. Since then I have continued to be frustrated by the failure of … Continue reading What do we call people who’ve had a breakdown?