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

Shell-shock was but very imperfectly understood at the beginning of the war.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

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 blindness and paralysis are cured at Seale Hayne Hospital and elsewhere in very “miraculous” fashion.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur