shell shock

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Shell-shock being, Rivers believes, a kind of withdrawal from a reality too terrible to contemplate, its victims are involved in a "hopeless attempt to forget".

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2012

As it was I merely found myself gasping "Shell-shock!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 10, 1917 by Various

She answered with an odd glibness and humility, as though tendering us a term she had long brooded over without arriving at comprehension, and hoping that our superior intelligences would make something of it: "Shell-shock."

From The Return of the Soldier by West, Rebecca

Shell-shock or the aftermath of illness from wounds left them in weakened health, subject to violent heart attacks.

From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by March, Francis Andrew

Shell-shock," said the doctor, close beside me; "bad case too, poor chap!

From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Malins, Geoffrey H.