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The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare) is the blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or traumatic events. It was originally used about war combatants and the post-traumatic stress they exhibited but is now also used to refer to an unfocused gaze observed in people under a ...
Combat stress reaction symptoms align with the symptoms also found in psychological trauma, which is closely related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). CSR differs from PTSD (among other things) in that a PTSD diagnosis requires a duration of symptoms over one month, [citation needed] which CSR does not.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
I am adding the Tom Lea painting, "The 2000 Yard Stare" to the page, and removing the WWI image. The image seems non-representational of the well known 2000 yard stare, while Tom Lea's painting seems more realistically, and emotionally appropriate. The painting is property of the US government/Army, so it is fair use, and can be used on wikipedia.
However, viewers began poking fun at the wide-eyed stare he gave the camera toward the end of the post when asking if filming was over. “Kurt Angle 1000 yard stare,” replied @indica.ht.
Shell shock is a term that originated during World War I to describe symptoms similar to those of combat stress reaction and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which many soldiers suffered during the war.
a single measure of whisky or other distilled spirit (used mostly in Scotland, derived from the Scots word 'hauf') fifty percent/0.5 times. large bottle of spirits ("a half of bourbon"), traditionally 1/2 of a US gallon, now the metric near-equivalent of 1750 mL; also "handle" as such large bottles often have a handle
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