Today the public complains that psychiatrists seem ready to call every state of mental distress an illness.

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There's no official term for milder forms of "nervous breakdown, " though some patients and clinicians wish there was still a name for a temporary state of being overwhelmed by outside forces without an underlying mental illness.

WSJ: Time for a Good Old-Fashioned Nervous Breakdown

Elsewhere around the world, Cuba's Fidel Castro — one of the world's longest serving heads of state — stepped down in 2006 at age 79 due to an intestinal illness that nearly killed him, handing power to his younger brother Raul.

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