Hi (((((mellors)))))

Could you try the excuse most of us women use, & say you have been parenting for 5 years ?

The jail time is harder to explain, but if you could include the entire period in what you are claiming as time you took for full-time parenting, they probably won't ask.
Anyway, a "nervous breakdown" is a meaningless dx, there is no such thing, so you couldn't have had one.