Reply #10: Actually, your example doesn't hold up... [View All]

Shell Shock would be the layman's term, by and large, for the technically out of date term in the military of Battle Fatigue, while doctors call this Post Trumatic Stress Syndrom. BTW, this syndrom is NOT just shown by soldiers on the battlefield, anyone who went through a traumatic experience, such as tornado, hurricanes, earthquake, witnessing a violent crime, anything that increases stress dramatically can all come down with the syndrom. The first two terms wouldn't be accurate in describing the SAME symptoms to the same psychological syndrom. PTSD wasn't even treated properly until after the Vietnam war, before that, most soldiers who came down with it, and civilians too, would do everything from commiting suicide or murder sprees to crawling into a bottle and never coming out of it. I would say that this is one example where things have actually IMPROVED, regardless of the language involved, though its far from perfect, given the militaries atrocious record, even today, of dealing with the syndrom.