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‘B’ is for breakdown; a nervous breakdown to be precise. Although not a recognisable clinical term, this is still often used to describe a loss of mental stability. In medieval times it might have been called ‘melancholia’, in the early 1900’s it was known as neurasthenia and then in the 1930’s our present term was used. It describes the experience of ‘snapping’ under immense pressure, with consequent physical or mental collapse, or both. More commonly now we would call it depression. Depressive episodes may be caused by genetic and biological factors but are often triggered by social and environmental circumstances.