posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD - an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images

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shell shock n (old) → psicosi traumatica (da bombardamento)

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battle fatigue combat fatigue combat neurosis disease Physical Appearance posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD shell shell-shocked shelling			Their survival was debatable, though each man suffered from shell shock that affected his later life and damaged his relations with family and friends. Casualty figures; how five men survived the First World War by Reference & Research Book News Mrs Harris said: "I have always argued that my father's refusal to rejoin the frontline, described in the court martial as cowardice, was in fact the result of shell shock. Justice at last for soldiers by The Journal (Newcastle, England) He hadbeen taken to hospital for shell shock on several previous occasions. BRITAIN: Honour for shot soldiers by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)			Shell button Shell cameo shell collecting shell company shell corporation shell entity Shell flower shell game shell ginger shell gland Shell gun Shell ibis shell jacket Shell lime Shell marl Shell meat Shell mound Shell of a boiler shell out shell parakeet shell pink shell plating shell program Shell road Shell sand shell shock shell star shell stitch shell suit shell-flower Shell-less shell-like shell-shocked shellac shellac varnish shellac wax shellack shellacking Shellapple shellback shellbark shellbark hickory shelled Sheller Shelley shellfire shellfish shellfishery shellflower shelling shelling report			shell parakeet shell parakeet shell parakeet Shell People Services Shell Petroleum Development Company shell pink Shell Pipeline Corporation shell plating shell plating Shell Process Infrastructure shell program shell programs Shell provider shell pump shell reamer Shell Research and Technology Centre Amsterdam Shell road Shell Rock River Watershed District shell roof shell room shell rot Shell sand Shell sand Shell script Shell script Shell scripting Shell scripts shell shake shell shock Shell Shock Reaction Shell Shock Syndrome Shell silverstein Shell Small Engine, Inc shell star shell star shell still shell stitch shell structure Shell Structures, Theory and Applications shell suit shell suits Shell Technology Enterprise Program shell teeth Shell Todd Oil Services shell tooth shell tooth shell tooth shell tooth Shell Trading Shell Trading Gas and Power Company Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web Shell Vacations Club Shell variable shell vaulting Shell Vial Assay/Routine Tube Tissue Culture Shell Weight per Unit Surface Area shell-and-tube exchanger

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