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It wasnt exactly a mental breakdown in the form of going crazy but on Port Charles when Lucy had a breakdown after Christina was kidnapped by Julie. Lynn Herring was at her best showing the audience that Lucy isn't always bubbly. Lucy went into a depression and would sit alone in the dark not letting any light in, until Kevin snapped her out of it.

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Cynthia Watros' Annie Dutton on GL, the two specific stand-outs being her breakdown on the witness stand and when she went berserk at Cross Creek after overdosing on medication and booze. Watros was on fire during the 1997 calendar year, she could've picked any reel at random and still have won that Emmy in 1998.

Funny that you mention that! On Wednesday in the ITZ chat room, Tom Casiello said whenever he wrote scripts that Julia was in, he sort of channeled Cynthia Watros' Annie.

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LOVED LOVED LOVED Erica's meltdown at the Woman of the Year awards on AMC (1996?) when she lashed out at everyone in town, especially St. Maria of Wildwind, "tending to the sick in her push-up bra." Still waiting for that clip to turn up on YouTube...

Brent Lawrence's breakdown was probably the only good thing I remember about Megan McTavish's GL. Too bad life imitated art with Frank Beaty's real-life mental collapse. But he was a riveting actor.

Victoria Rowell played the hell out of Dru's mental breakdown on Y&R last year, even though it was poorly written by LML.

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