"One of the symptoms of shell shock is that the victim of trauma sometime loses themselves in thought." Walter Mosley in Blood Grove. Vietnam vets a plenty in the story.
I was in supply room putting away stuff when one of The Village workers came in and asked what I was doing. That snapped me out of my blank spare, and told her "I was putting away supplies." I wondered if she thought I was stealing stuff? Or did she realize I was just standing there staring?
I believe it is called the "thousand yard stare' that WW veterans experienced, before PTSD replaced Shell shock. I had said so many times years earlier that I felt like a Vietnam Vet with PTSD. Never realizing that domestic violence survivors can also have it. P
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