"Shell shock" is a phrase that describes a condition experienced by soldiers who have been in war. It refers to the mental and emotional effects of the loud noises, explosions, and stress they have been exposed to, resulting in symptoms like anxiety, depression, and difficulty coping with daily life.
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My body is
in shell shock with all the exercise and not knowing how to eat.
I'll admit my first response was not my best, I was a tad
shell shocked by the extent of your response to a simple question.
When you first join the dating site of your choice you will be a little
shell shocked at the amount of profiles to choose from.
Yes, the message is given with blunt force trauma, but it seems appropriate to leave the
viewer shell shocked.
And she's proven to be the best mama in the world, though there are moments when she looks exhausted and a
little shell shocked to find herself the mother of four!
Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy and Eric Dier scored three second half goals to turn things around for England as Germany
left shell shocked in what was a devastating performance by -LSB-...]
Living in a different country to where my family was, no friends around who had kids, completely
shell shocked from not only having a new baby but one who did not fit into the typical mainstream books about how a baby «should» sleep and breastfeed.
Embroidery was a classic device for the rehabilitation of soldiers during WWI, because this intricate work helped to reduce the effects
of shell shock.
«The events of the past week have been a
total shell shock,» Kogan said in an interview with BBC Radio Wednesday morning.
U.S. Army Spc. Larry Bowen age 26,
sits shell shocked in a ditch next to his machine gun after a frontal assault on an insurgent position.
This terrible hospital doesn't have much in the way of a NICU, as far as I can gather, baby left
with shell shocked mother.
I went to the mountain with men as a child, I came
back shell shocked and feeling closer to a man than I ever had.
I expected to feel
more shell shock when meeting with him, but all we felt was relief.
What is now known as PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, was
called shell shock back in the days of the first world war.
This stigma didn't begin to fade until it was realized that every soldier will become
shell shocked given enough time at the front lines.
The food was generally bad and the prices were a bit high (though we were
n't shell shocked being from NY).
I just watched Wenger's after match interview he is not only clueless about what to do on the pitch he also clueless about what to say he looked
totally shell shocked the Man has lost it time to go and take Steve Bould with him.
The man sat
there shell shocked he just didn't know what to do as Liverpool ran rings around Arsenal.
If we get a negative result during that period then we may
get shell shocked and underperform in the next fixtures
There are so many underperforming players in the whole team in that Hart is
shell shocked now and must be rested, both full backs are underperforming, Reid looks shaky, Kouyate doesn't seem to have his normal grit or know where he should be playing, Obiang has gone off the boil etc etc etc I see crisis everywhere I look at the moment.
The visitors were left
shell shocked mere moments into the game as Christian Eriksen scored the third fastest goal in Premier League history with just 11 seconds on the clock, although replays suggest that there should have been a foul at kick - off.
All three of them (Edwards, Pataki, Long) are surprised at
how shell shocked Rick was, even at the Mitt Romney dinner in Syracuse on Monday.
The paper revealed that PTSD symptoms were known as
shell shock during World War I, and irritable heart or soldier's heart during World War II.
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Cut to the First World War being waged in 1916 France, where Milne struggles with
shell shock amid the carnage and chaos.
What I love is that while Pleasence begins their stories the subjects of them seem to be in
absolute shell shock murmuring some wort of madness to themselves as he begins each tale.
The smug voice - over introduction, the overbearing jauntiness of Alexandre Desplat's score, the sitcom -
ready shell shock we see in the Suburbicon residents» faces: It's all grotesquely unsubtle filmmaking in a picture whose takedown of Eisenhower - era white supremacy isn't exactly the stuff of nuance to begin with.
The plot is a thinly - veiled ripoff of «The Silence of the Lambs» minus the people eater — and the intrigue, suspense, surprise, complexity, character development, mordant wit, originality, and
shell shocking horror.
The stock market would wildly swing by hundreds of points at a time, many times seemingly without reason, and it would leave
investors shell shocked.
While lots of students can't afford to make immediate payments, many do like to pay the interest so they don't have
shell shock after they graduate.
Or you have 6 dogs and are bringing in a new,
shell shocked dog and don't want them overwhelmed at the front door.
Cooperative play lies at the heart of TMNT3 and gamers who team up with friends for multiplayer action are rewarded with exclusive features such as Cooperative Attack for even more
shell shocking damage to enemies.
While there is still new money outside Canada for select deals, Toronto has «gone
into shell shock» according to Jim Kofman, vice chairman of Cormack Securities Inc..
If you haven't undergone one of these marathon testing processes before, you may be feeling a bit tired, or in some
cases shell shocked.
Between that nasty Nigella business and the whole Miranda Kerr / James Packer dating revelation I'm a bit
shell shocked today.
But he was, by and large, operating when the world was in
shell shock from the 1930s — which was the worst contraction in the English - speaking world in about 600 years.
John Travolta is often caught saying that the reason Terrence Malick vanished in 1978 was out
of shell shock.
The local party was a bit
shell shocked by the speed at which the by - election news came following on from the sad news of Piara Khabra's death.
The academic told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the events of the past week had been «a
total shell shock».