The two times I had nervous breakdowns in my life were when I graduated from college and had my first kid.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
I had a lot of depression as a kid.
I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.
I was a really, really depressed kid.
Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.
I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.
I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.
The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.