“…the war in Vietnam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it’s no surprise that the very same condition was called “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.”
Still eight syllables, but we’ve added a hyphen! And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I’ll bet you if we’d have still been calling it “Shell Shock”, some of those Vietnam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time.
-George Carlin
Of course we didn’t give them the attention they needed when we called it shell shock either. There’s a reason Nazi memorabilia became such a big part of the outlaw biker image. Cause that’s where a lot of WWII vets found the support they needed, they left our society and made their own.