MA (Psychology) PhD (Psychology)
Diagnostically, the concept of Stress Breakdown should be clearly differentiated from a "semantically similar" concept such as Nervous Breakdown.
The difference between Stress Breakdown and Nervous Breakdown in of an aetiological nature: Stress Breakdown is caused entirely by environmental factors (protraced stress and psychological duress), whereas the concept of Nervous Breakdown is sometimes used as a "non-threatening" expression for developments related to mental illness (psychotic episodes).
Stress Breakdown is entirely unrelated to psychotic symptomatology, and in fact can be only diagnosed in the case of absolute absence of any psychotic symptoms.