A mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare.
1 Back in hospital I was found to be suffering from shell shock .
2 She would recognize shell shock , and know him for what he was.
3 He had been taken to hospital for shell shock on several previous occasions.
4 It would be easy to write it off as shell shock .
5 Got back to England by shamming shell shock and was given his discharge.
6 He wondered if she could have had a slight touch of shell shock .
7 Dr. Philips was saying, This is a man who suffers from shell shock .
8 Perhaps it's Cyrus dying like that, perhaps it's like shell shock .
9 I didn't try to explain that shell shock didn't begin with a physical wound.
10 He was then seized with shell shock and became uncontrollable.
11 Apparently they can't make anything out of his condition, but think it's shell shock .
12 But the other thing-theyput it down under the broad general head of shell shock .
13 His poor mind had given out under the terrible strain; shell shock , it was called.
14 I'm still in shell shock and can't overstate how great it was to see everyone.
15 In the old days they called it shell shock .
16 I believe you diagnose this case as shell shock ?
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