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How is PTSD related to the concept of shell shock?

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Shell shock was the term for what could have been diagnosed as ptsd during the First World War due
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Shell shock is a term coined in World War I by British psychologist Charles Samuel Myers to describe the type of post traumatic stress disorder many soldiers were afflicted with during the war (before PTSD was termed). ... During the War, the concept of shell shock was ill-defined.

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