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Early in World War I, the term shell shock emerged to describe the array of psychiatric symptoms soldiers manifested.
Treatments had to be found for terrible conditions never encountered before such as trench foot, mustard gas poisoning, and shell shock.
He suffered from manic depression after shell shock in World War II and the festival has been timed to coincide with Mental Health Week.
A manual in 1960 urged people to understand that breakdowns were no more manageable than shell shock or battle fatigue.
The only cure for shell shock was thought to be complete rest away from all the effects of war.
Appendix A is an interesting but rather detached precis of chemical warfare and shell shock.
Was it a sign of madness brought on by shell shock and imprisonment and public disgrace, the way some scholars would like to see it?
It used to be known as shell shock but it's just as relevant today as ever.
Then there was Milligan's wartime trauma, when he suffered flesh wounds and shell shock in north Africa and Italy.
The files disclose that many of the men were suffering from shell shock and were not in a fit mental state to answer the charges put to them.
My grandmother was a nurse there in the Second World War when they were treating servicemen for burns and shell shock.
She was diagnosed with a mild case of shell shock and was close to a complete nervous breakdown.
What used to be broadly referred to as shell shock and is now termed post-traumatic stress disorder has typically been discussed in relation to its effects on male soldiers.
It describes the diagnostic eras of shell shock, battle fatigue, and post-traumatic stress disorder in the particular political, cultural, and medical contexts of their time.
Many were repeat deserters who showed no sign of shell shock.
In the past it's been called everything from shell shock to battle fatigue.
For the first time, new disorders appeared: shell shock, concentration camp syndrome and combat fatigue.
There was a time when we referred to war's aftermath as battle fatigue or shell shock.
That is a name that would probably shell shock everyone on the Liberal side and send them into hiding.
A lot of fellows broke down, you know, and they were sent back with shell shock and one thing or another.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He wondered if she could have had a slight touch of shell shock.
Dr. Owen thinks my trouble is shell shock, but he is mistaken.
We know so little about shell shock, so often the impossible happens.
Now he has heard about shell shock as a result of a similar experience.
It wasn't the bomb that defeated us, but our own shell shock.
Owain Gwynn plays Wilfred Owen, a gentle soul with a Welsh lilt who is sent to Craiglockhart to recover from neurasthenia, otherwise known as shell shock.
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