very will to live. The Bible says, “When the heart is sad, the spirit is broken” (Proverbs 15:13 NASB). Breakdown The final state of this process is a breakdown of the fabric of the personality, referred to in Scripture as a “drying up of the bones,” and sometimes popularly called a nervous breakdown. “A man’s spirit sustains him in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?” (Proverbs 18:14). Depression may be fueled by circumstances far beyond our control, but depression is often the end result