What else is shell shock called?

Answer 1

Here are some of the symptoms........ * Hysteria and anxiety * Paralysis * Limping and muscle contractions * Blindnes and deafness * Nightmares and insomnia * Heart palpitations * Depression * Dizziness and disorientation * Loss of appetite Hope it helps!!!!!!!

Answer 2

This was a common condition suffered by soldiers in World War I. By World War II, it was more often called Battle Fatigue. Now it is known as Traumatic Stress Disorder (while still in battle) or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (when the symptoms reappear later).

The simplest explanation is the story of the three stages someone in combat goes through. The "can't, could, and will" stages.

In the "can't" stage, the young and eager soldier knows he can't die. His side is better and stronger than the other side, and the good guys always win.

In the "could" stage, he's seen enough others on his side die now to know that he could die, but believes that so long as he is careful, does the right things, and doesn't goof up, he won't die.

In the "will" stage, he's seen enough careful soldiers doing the right things who also don't goof up - but also die - to now know that death is going to come to everyone, and that the longer he is there, the more likely it becomes. He knows now that it is inevitable, and is on some level just waiting to die.

At this point, he needs to be taken off of the battle field.
Shell Shock was a term used during the First World War to describe the psychological trauma suffered by men serving on the war's key battlefronts - France, Flanders, along the Isonzo and in Gallipoli.

The intensity of the essentially artillery battles fought along these war fronts - most notably in France and Flanders; hence the tag popularly applied to the disorder - often caused neurotic cracks to appear in otherwise mentally stable soldiers.

Men who saw service of any great length on an active front quickly came to recognise the symptoms of shell shock among their fellow men. Recognition in the form of military authority was rather slower to develop. At first shell shock victims were believed to be suffering from the direct physical effects of shell blasts, or from a form of monoxide poisoning.

Symptoms varied widely in intensity, ranging from moderate panic attacks - which sometimes caused men to flee the battlefield: a crime which was invariably regarded as rank cowardice and which resulted in a court martial for desertion - to effective mental and physical paralysis.

Sent home to recover many shell shock victims recovered over time, whereas many others continued to feel its effects for years afterwards.

Treatment for shell shock was primitive at best and dangerous at worst; psychological theories governing its treatment developed only gradually. Reliable figures relating to the total number of shell shock sufferers are not available.

Click here to read W H Rivers' 1917 paper, The Repression of War Experience, in which he details the treatment of shell shock, including illustrative cases.

Shell Shock is what we would call today "Battle Fatigue" or "Battle Exhaustion", both of which are far better descriptions of what is really happening.

The name "Shell Shock" came from the belief that it was caused by the concussion of shells exploding nearby rattling the brain inside the skull, causing the neurological symptoms.

The reality is that Shell Shock was applied to virtually anyone who showed symptoms of reluctance to fight. We now recognize that modern warfare causes huge psychological damage to any human being, from a whole variety of sources. All human beings have a limit as to the amount of psychological trauma they can sustain; exposure to warfare can bit-by-bit chip away at this reserve of mental endurance, until it finally becomes too much, and the person starts to exhibit varieties of mental illness symptoms. We do not understand why some people can take more than others, nor why certain things cause more stress on people than other experiences. But what we do know is that all humans have limits of mental endurance, and that mental illness invariably follows once these limits have been exceeded.

Answer 3

It is to be Gobbsmacked kind of thing. Basically it is just anothe way of saying you were extremely shocked, well i think lol

Well it is kinda lmao, but all i no is that is was common in the war and it is now it kinda means ya shocked and you can lost the feeling of being shocked and it stays with you for ages and it is a mad thing ..

Also if your looking for a history class it was Soldiers who were psychologically injured by combat

Answer 4

today shell shock is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

From a psychologist's standpoint, Shell Shock is more properly categorized as Battle Fatigue, Combat Neurosis, Combat Fatigue, or Combat Exhaustion.

PTSD generally refers to psychological problems traceable to a single event; Combat Exhaustion is a more inclusive term which refers to the entirety of the combat stress experience, which is what the original "Shell Shock" term was used to describe. Shell Shock was originally falsely named as being associated with repeated exposure to the concussive blows from heavy artillery shelling, a common occurrence in the trench warfare of the WW1 Western Front. Nowdays, we recognize that it was not the physical trauma of such repeated shelling that cause the mental illness, but the repeated stress and anxiety such shelling inflicted on soldiers over a long time.

Thus, Combat Exhaustion is a better description for the syndrome that originally was called Shell Shock. For it truly is the exhaustion of the mind's ability to withstand the repeated stresses of combat that causes the mental illness to manifest itself.

Additionally, for the short-term affects that Shell Shock used to refer to, the term Combat Stress Reaction is now used instead. This refers to immediate effects of a high-stress situation, and is an acute (rather than long-term) disorder, treatable shortly after the trigger event happens. CSR can, however, easily become PTSD if left untreated (or mistreated), as the reaction will become a permanent psychological scar.