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Contemporaneous Traumatic Stress Disorder or Shallow Shock

Glossary term

/kənˌtem.pəˈreɪ.ni.əs trɔːˈmæt.ɪk ˈstres dɪsˈɔː.də ɔː ˈʃæl.əʊ ˈʃɒk/

Cheseham’s instant trauma response to proximity with Wankstain. Psychiatry, accelerated to conversational speed.

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…In this connection, Mr Crass Cheseham had lately developed what may not without felicity be characterised as a Contemporaneous Traumatic Stress Disorder or Shallow Shock, whereby he was given to wincing and flinching and shuddering at the deployment by Dr Mark Wankstain of solecisms such as “triangulation” and “yeahyeahyeahyeah!”

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