I think it looks different for everyone. I mean mental breakdown isn't a medical term as far as I know. For me I was so depressed that I couldn't get out if bed except to shower. I stopped eating completely. I slept all day long. And I really don't remember most of it. It took ECT To get me out.

At the end of august I had another significant break in my mental health, this time from a manic episode gone wrong. It included psychotic symptoms like me believing that another entity was putting thoughts in my head that I had to follow, along with intrusive images of self harm and bizarre, disturbing dreams. I was hospitalized for Sui behavior.

So I don't think it's the same for everyone. Many times I have felt like I just couldn't keep going, but when I woke up in the morning I go out of bed. It wasn't until I couldn't gt up that I considered it a breakdown.