Sentences with phrase «called shell shock»

What is now known as PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, was called shell shock back in the days of the first world war.

During the First World War the phenomenon was called shell shock; it produced men who even as octogenarians would shake and leap for cover when a door slammed.

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The EpiPen is a so - called «auto - injector» which delivers a jolt of epinephrine to the body in order to counteract anaphylaxis shock from allergies to peanuts, shell food, and other substances.

Carlin was on to something when he concluded, «I'll bet you if we'd have still been calling it «shell shock,» some of those Vietnam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time.»

The late George Carlin noted that what we called «shell shock» in World War I morphed into «battle fatigue» during the second World War, which became «operational exhaustion» in the Korean War, and then, since Vietnam, «post-traumatic stress disorder.»

In the American Civil War, veterans suffered from «soldier's heart»; in World War I, it was called «shell shock,» and in World War II, the term used was «combat fatigue.»

To be fair, though, Gene didn't seem like much of a wiz in the kitchen, and spent most of his time on the job reminiscing about imaginary foes that all tied into his shell - shocked pile of wet mud he called a brain.

(There's no question Salinger suffered shell - shock, as they called it then, but the psychological explanation is a little too familiar as a biopic convention.)

Dogs that won't come when called, who won't sit when told to sit and who jump all over your shell - shocked visitors are no fun to be around.