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The final breaking point is the point at which your brain refuses to carry out any more voluntary motions and, based on either the need for rest or a strong emotion such as guilt, terror, hopelessness, or any of many emotions, induces psychosomatic paralysis of a sense.
some examples:
A mother who sees her child chase the ball she just bought him into the road and be hit by a car is overcome by guilt and horror and goes blind so that she can't see her child bleeding to death because of something she feels responsible for.
Back in Victorian times, one of Freud's patients was a woman who suffered paralysis and numbness from the waist down because she felt so guilty about enjoying sex with her husband. Her husband was a decent man who wouldn't ask a paralyzed wife to have sex with him, so her "problem" was "solved."
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