📚 noun • entry_id 42054
shell shock
Meanings (ES + gloss)
neurosis bélica • neurosis de guerra • neurosis guerrera
A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle; it is not a current diagnosis in medicine, but it corresponds largely with the current diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.
There's a condition in combat—most people know it by now. It occurs when a soldier's nervous system has reached the breaking point. In World War I, it was called shell shock. Simpl…
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