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Agreed. I despise political correctness yet appreciate this list, using precise language is always a good idea. I clicked in ready to see "shell shock" being re

• runarberg 4y ago
  > I clicked in ready to see "shell shock" being renamed for the third time in less than a century It’s interesting you’d say that because I always understood the term Shell Shock to have been abandoned in favor of a more accurate and descriptive term. So I think if it was still in use by psychologists today (for some reason), I would have expected to see that on this list, and see the authors argue for the far more accurate term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. As a case in point, this list does include Multiple personality disorder and argues we should instead use the more accurate term dissociative identity disorder.
• csours 4y ago
  "Shell Shock" of course being the feeling when you discover that you are not using bash 4+ === End joke section === Shell shock has a genuinely complex and interesting history. It has described different conditions, had different connotations and value judgements, and had different supposed causes over time. As I understand it, shell shock has at least two very real components: Traumatic brain injury and Post traumatic stress disorder - they are often found together, and they act together to make things much worse than either by themselves. Mainstream understanding of the harm of repeated mild traumatic brain injury is very recent, relatively speaking.