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Veterans of World War II were instead thought to suffer “shell shock” or “combat fatigue.”

Three-year-old Yuna, who has shell shock, arrived at The Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden on 17 August and stayed inside her enclosure for a week.

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Yuna, a three-year-old lioness, has shell shock but it is hoped she can now heal at her new home at The Big Cat Sanctuary, in Smarden.

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It started off as battle fatigue, and then it evolved into shell shock.

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Doctors then discovered he was suffering from shell shock.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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