Nervous Breakdowns

[Kyrok]

I wonder if depressive personalities are more prone to nervous breakdowns. Depression and anxiety often go together, but what about depression and "snapping" under stress?

I think about how intensely miserable I was in 2014-2017 and how I snapped in 2018.

Now, about a year later, I remain fixated on what I did to myself when I snapped. Perhaps with life being so miserable, there is less to stop one from snapping.

Today, something shitty happened to me, and I immediately assumed to worst and felt I couldn't handle it. Has my tolerance for problems just gotten very low or is something else going on here?

 

[GeorgeJL]

Today, something shitty happened to me, and I immediately assumed to worst and felt I couldn't handle it. Has my tolerance for problems just gotten very low or is something else going on here?

Nobody has replied yet because nobody knows your patters and history of behavior.

As far as "depression and "snapping" under stress?" I am no expert in this buy I do know that when you suppress emotions that bad things happen later on and it may not even be snapping it could be killing ones self.

 

[Letmego. Please]

I wonder if depressive personalities are more prone to nervous breakdowns. Depression and anxiety often go together, but what about depression and "snapping" under stress?

I think about how intensely miserable I was in 2014-2017 and how I snapped in 2018.

Now, about a year later, I remain fixated on what I did to myself when I snapped. Perhaps with life being so miserable, there is less to stop one from snapping.

Today, something shitty happened to me, and I immediately assumed to worst and felt I couldn't handle it. Has my tolerance for problems just gotten very low or is something else going on here?

I am not sure if different types of stress have different effects on our ability to cope, i used to work in a very high stress job, but the stress of that was ok, it was part of what i loved about the job, part of what kept me going at the speed i need to. But emotional stress is something different, that breaks me completely apart & is the reason for everyone of my attempts.

You are right that when you are already struggling your ability to take any further blows is greatly reduced, so i don't think your tolerance to stress as such has gotten low, but that where your brain is at now means that your ability to brush off stressors is determined by the depression, and with that we never win.

I can only base the above on my own experience so it may make no sense to you, but having been about here for a bit & interacted with your good self i hope it is of some help because i know it's a shitty place (depression/anxiety) & making sense of things in our brains becomes very important. Hugs.

 

[Robbyna]

I wonder if depressive personalities are more prone to nervous breakdowns. Depression and anxiety often go together, but what about depression and "snapping" under stress?

I think about how intensely miserable I was in 2014-2017 and how I snapped in 2018.

Now, about a year later, I remain fixated on what I did to myself when I snapped. Perhaps with life being so miserable, there is less to stop one from snapping.

Today, something shitty happened to me, and I immediately assumed to worst and felt I couldn't handle it. Has my tolerance for problems just gotten very low or is something else going on here?

I had a breakdown along a similar timeline to you and now am in the aftermath. I do think being depressed contributed to snapping under stress. If I weren't so depressed I probably could've delt with the stress better early on and prevented escalation and a breakdown, but you know what they say about hindsight.

 

[Kyrok]

Thanks for the responses. I feel like I just can't deal with anything more. Too many people around me are making ridiculous mistakes. I bought a car & they registered the VIN for a different car on the loan & title. My wife's attorney just had the court execute an order with the wrong dollar amount. My boss forgot to do the paperwork for my 5 year review by the deadline. A project at work never got fixed, though I laid out the needed corrections to the workgroup weeks ago.

Day after day, I end up dealing with more and more problems. I'm exhausted. Just 3yrs until I can take early retirement and get everything off my shoulders but I don't see how I can last. Work, life, health, nothing but and endless cascade of fuck ups.