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

WSJ: DSM-5: A Manual Run Amok

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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