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 any about diagnostic systems to come up with a diagnosis that encompasses this group. The term ;breakdown’ continues to elude any academic discussion. At the recent Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry conference in Sydney in September 2018 I presented a paper about this called “What do we call people who have had breakdowns? The diagnostic dilemma of long-term psychiatric disability‘. Click on the link to read the paper.
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