Drive (one) to despair negative verb phrase
To cause someone to feel sad, depressed and hopeless
This problem is driving me to despair.
I broke up with him because he has driven me to despair so many times.
That failure drove her to despair.
people often do irrational or foolish things when they are in love.
1. A short period of time suffering from depression
2. A hangover
To feel hopeless or lose control of one's emotions
To fall into a hopeless or depressed state
1. Having got an unlucky outcome
2. In a hopeless situation
This idiom should be conjugated according to its subject and tense.