Nervous breakdown

Archibald Scott Courier (1831-1892) was born in Kirkintilloch, Scotland, and studied at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Paris. Although his scientific paper about the ability of carbon to form four bonds was submitted prior to a similar paper by Kekule, Couper never received credit for his work. His health began to decline after the rejection of his achievements, and he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1858. He then retired from further scientific work and spent the last 30 years of his life in the care of his mother. 

In 1839. he suffered a nervous breakdown, the result of overwork. For much of the rest of his life. Faraday was in poor health. He gradually gave up more and more of his social engagements but continued to do research at the same pace as before. 

The role played by culture in the expression of symptoms, as well as in the greater acceptance of certain forms of psychopathological expression, is especially well illustrated in the studies conducted on depression among the Hut-terites, on neurasthenia in China and on nervous breakdowns in the Puerto Rican population. 

Despite tlie high toxicity of phosphorus, it was formerly a widely used pharmaceutical, happily in quite small doses (though happier would have been no dose at all). It was recommended for nervous breakdown, depression, migraine, epilepsy, stroke, pneumonia, alcoholism, tuberculosis, cholera, and cataracts. " Free Phosphorus in Medicine, published in 1874, extolled its benefits. By 1930, elemental phosphorus was eliminated from the practice of medicine. That is entirely appropriate since it has absolutely no medical benefits. 

Many eminent persons have had children with serious mental problems and have had at least one child take his or her life. Robert Frost s daughter was committed to the state mental hospital and another daughter had a nervous breakdown. One of Albert Einstein s children was diagnosed as schizophrenic. Ambrose Bierce s oldest son committed suicide, and his other died of alcoholism at age 27. Thomas Edison had two children who became alcoholics, one of whom committed suicide. Alfred Stieglitz s daughter was psychotic and committed to a mental institution. James Joyce had two children. His son became an alcoholic his daughter went mad and, as discussed, was admitted to an asylum for schizophrenia. Numerous other examples demonstrate the frequent problems of geniuses children. Many of these children tried unsuccessfully to pursue careers similar to their eminent parents, but it is not clear if this played any role in their mental problems. 

After the death of his wife, Phillipps searched for a replacement wife with more money to help him finance his collection obsession. He eventually settled for a clergyman s daughter and collected with renewed vigor. I wish to have one copy of every book in the world III he wrote to a friend. He ate and slept among his books. His new wife eventually complained of rats, and had a nervous breakdown. Phillipps only watched as she was carted away to a cheap boarding house. 

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was the second of six children bom into the family of an impoverished Lutheran minister in lower Saxony, near modem Hannover, Germany. Riemann suffered from childhood malnutrition and was prone to excessive timidity, sickness, and nervous breakdowns throughout his difficult life, which ended in Italy while he was attempting recuperation from chronic tuberculosis (with a wife and young child at his side) at age 39. 

Reduced Attribute This side effect reduces a random ability score by ld4 for its duration. If a physical ability is reduced below zero, the character dies, as normal for ability damage. If a mental ability is reduced below zero, the character suffers a total nervous breakdown and goes permanently insane in a manner decided by the GM. 

The witness [Barth164] hesitates, [...] suffers or fakes a nervous breakdown. [...] Before leaving the witness stand he takes back his claim that the police officer who had interrogated him had blackmailed him into telling what had happened at that time. He now states rather lamely that the officer had been rather tough with him which is certainly necessary with witnesses of this sort, [sic ] ... 

But which truth did the judge want to hear Some of the accused did not admit even a certain measure of guilt until after they had suffered dramatic heart attacks, nervous breakdowns and hys-terics. Outrage at the boundless lies of the witnesses is a constant with all the defendants. 

A particularly devastating example is that of Oswald Kaduk, one of the accused in the Auschwitz Trial, a very simple soul. He was badgered so dreadfully that he suffered a nervous breakdown,303 attempted during his trial to refute even testimony in his favor,304 and ultimately said with resignation,... 

Fritz, meanwhile, was startled to discover that his wife wasn t happy just minding her own business at home with an adolescent stepson and newborn daughter. He was upset when she announced her plans, on just a few days notice, to travel to a resort in Switzerland. When Haber became crippled by one of his periodic nervous breakdowns, he blamed his wife, calling her demands thumbscrews of the soul. ... 

Thelma, is he your husband or your father It s just two days. For God s sake, Thelma. Don t be a child. Just tell him you re goin with me, for cryin out loud. Tell him I m having a nervous breakdown. 

Plath, S. The Bell Jar. New York Everyman s Library, 2000. Insightful and sometimes humorous novel of young woman s nervous breakdown and depression. 

It doesn t bother them to have four experiments simultaneously being conducted on the same problem. Whereas, for the non-innovator that s almost too much to handle in terms of their rigidity. They would have a nervous breakdown if all four were ongoing. Suppose they all worked ... 

In September 2005, after several months of head scratching and whiteboard discussions with the research group, the lead author launched the first synthetic reaction of a new total synthesis project. Even if the yield of this a-alkylation of propionic acid was pretty low (22%), it was the first of several thousand reactions that made up a fascinating project at the frontier of chemistry and biology. A very lively project, it had its ups and downs, nervous breakdowns, and moments of illuminations a very human adventure after all. 

He resigned from Morton Thiokol in July 1986. He said he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder - he had clearly had some kind of nervous breakdown after the accident. He filed a lawsuit against Morton Thiokol but it was dismissed. 

Nervous, irritable, and depressed. Such outward signs eis crying spells, overwhelming sadness, worthlessness, and mental apathy may presage a nervous breakdown. 

People respond to a negative work culture in a number of ways, some will become cynical and ambivalent towards work, others will seek to want to deliberately sabotage the organisation s plans. A common outcome of a negative culture is individual work-related stress. If stress is intense and goes on for some time it can lead to mental and physical ill health, i.e. depression, nervous breakdown, heart disease. 

We also asked questions about 11 common health problems that could appear with aging [respiratory, cardiac, digestive, urinary, muscular, ear, nose, or throat (ENT), diabetes, cholesterol, thyroid, insomnia, and nervous breakdown problems]. The distribution of LOG and NOG subjects was compared between the group who reported an illness and the group who did not. No difference appeared between the two distributions for subjects who declared they had nervous breakdown, respiratory, digestive, cholesterol, thyroid, or, quite surprisingly, ENT problems test, < 0.005 correction for multiple tests Bonferroni adjusted a = 0.005). 

This shocking event ended Bond s rural idyll. He and Julia left Washington Parish for the safety of New Orleans. But Bond could forget neither the lynching nor the fate of the Wilson family. John Wilson, a man of bedrock honesty and sturdy independence, now stood to lose everything. His wife suffered a nervous breakdown. Two of his... 

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