https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc
The author of this article pointed our some similar examples: welfare -> cash assistance -> TANF.
Is the problem just shortening it because it takes too long to say?
I wish I could cleverly work in a "QED" here (from Latin) but it just doesn't fit.
By the way, QED is just a calque from Greek. (Like most things Roman...)
As an American, I'd find it hard (at least in my circles) to find an American who doesn't find it cringe worthy.
In fact, I don't think I've heard anyone use that term in at least forty years.
Horrors of War Syndrome would probably be better.
She primarily worked with sexual abuse victims, but spent a lot of time veterans as well. Her focus was PTSD, and talk therapy is really effective for PTSD.
Her opinion was, in world war 1, They didn't really have the psychologic or physical frameworks to really distinguish. Certainly, some people had mechanical damage, like football players. Certainly, some people really had a hard time experiencing the horrors of war. They just didn't really know.
Calling it shell shock, that helped some of the veterans. Helped them sorta get that they're not alone. People have dealt with this for a long time.
Rape victims, shell shock isn't a great name. For a lot of reasons.
It's kinda about recognizing that this trauma is a real thing, there's nothing wrong with you. This is a normal reaction, everyone goes through it. Some people need a little help finding their way back to normal.
I doesn’t have to be a negative thing either. PTSD is more inclusive, since it doesn’t imply that you’ve literally had bombs dropped on you relentlessly, like shellshock does.
If I say to someone to "make way for the blind person walking there" I'm not attacking them, but trying to help them navigate a crowded area safely. That's true regardless of whether I referred to them as blind, unsighted, vision-impaired, differently-abled, or anything else. Similarly, If I were mocking them I'd be stigmatizing them regardless of the word I used for it.