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Thank you. And what about accuracy? All the simpletons who love the word "shell shock" are simply wrong much of the time if the soldier's (psychological) injury wasn't caused by a shell. Some may call that pedantry, but to me it's not. It correctly classifies (what we believe to be) the same illness: someone who witnessed people being shot in a war, to witness of city violence, to domestic abuse. Psychologists are finding out that their symptoms all line up, hence the disease needs a more precise name. Baffles me to see so much support for "shell shock" here, the mother-ship of pedantry.


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