The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
You can do a lot of breakdown on games you played, but the takeaways from games you've played has to be on what's in front of you.
Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.
Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.