Rats and Nervous Breakdowns

I think I now perhaps understand what it was like for women of the old days who had nervous breakdowns. Mind you, I probably endure more daily stress than they did. But after waking up a couple nights ago with a rodent sitting on me and laying partially awake the rest of the night with the lights on, I have been reduced to a distracted, nervous ninny. Yesterday, I could only think of the trauma. Today, I cannot concentrate and have a heavy depressed feeling inside, like a yawn that won't come out. I have little hunger, though ate a bbq sandwich today to try to cheer myself up. I bet the nervous breakdowns were caused by some sudden stress mixed with a changing of hormone levels. When combined just right, you have a woman who should go off to the sanitarium.