SOCIAL BREAKDOWN SYNDROME

a pattern sees in people who have been institutionalised by mental illness or in prisons. They can withdraw, show apathy, be submissive and show social and vocational incompetence. Also called chronicity; institutionalism; institutional neurosis; social disability syndrome.

SOCIAL BREAKDOWN SYNDROME: “Joe exhibited social breakdown syndrome when released from prison after 10 years.”
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Related terms:

  1. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
  2. Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS)
  3. Sturge-Weber-Dimitri Syndrome
  4. SJOGREN-LARSSON SYNDROME
  5. XXXX SYNDROME
  6. VAN BUCHEM’S SYNDROME
  7. XYY SYNDROME
  8. ORGANIC PERSONALITY SYNDROME
  9. MARINESCO-SJOGRCN SYNDROME
  10. AORTIC ARCH SYNDROME