Ataque de Nervios

Ataque de nervios, literally attack of nerves, is a psychological syndrome mostly associated in the United States with Spanish-speaking people from the Caribbean, though it is also recognized across Iberian-descended cultures more broadly and has also been called nervous tension, mal de pelea, and the Puerto Rican Syndrome. In its cultural context the term refers to a specific pattern of symptoms rather than a general feeling of nervousness, and the Diccionario Panhispanico de Terminos Medicos translates it as an attack of nerves or nervous breakdown. The condition appears in Appendix I of the revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a culture-bound syndrome.