A nervous breakdown is when someone becomes unable to cope with everyday life, perhaps following a trauma or, perhaps, seemingly out of the blue. Alastair Campbell talks candidly to Ruby Wax about how he suffered a breakdown. Download our Cracking Up factsheet (781 Kb - Adobe Acrobat is required to download PDF files).
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Ruby talks to Alastair Campbell about the events that led to his breakdown. Read the text version.
Ruby Wax majored in psychology at University of California, Berkeley. She later moved to England and launched a successful career as a comedian and presenter. Ruby has trained as a psychotherapist and is studying for an MA in Neuroscience.
The breakdown guide explains how to counteract the pressures of everyday life, to cope better in a crisis and how to rebuild your life after a breakdown.
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