shell shock - 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern

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Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. The effects of this condition prompt a man to travel to a non-video game Monkey Island and resume a long-dormant fling with Margaret Allington Grey. The description of this condition in the novels The Romantic and Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair draws on her work with Charles Samuel Myers, the first physician to study it. This condition afflicts Chris Baldry, the title character of the debut novel by Rebecca (*) West. A character suffering this condition is overwhelmed by the ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: shell shock [or PTSD; or post-traumatic stress disorder; accept deferred traumatic stress or combat fatigue or combat neurosis or combat stress reaction; prompt on (mental) trauma or stress or neurasthenia; prompt on amnesia or nervous breakdown by asking "what is causing [the relevant thing]?"] (The Rebecca West book is The Return of the Soldier.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Clark Smith	OSU	Maryland B-	89	10
Mike Bentley	Amartya Senpai Notice Me	Mojo Shojo	95	10
Alston Boyd	Chicago B+	Chicago A	96	-5
Ned Tagtmeier	Chicago A	Chicago B+	98	10
Mitch McCullar	Illinois A+	Epic Games	99	-5
Charles Hang	WUSTL	Purdue	102	10
Andrew Salij	Northwestern	Michigan	133	-5
Connor Thompson	Michigan	Northwestern	141	10
Jason Asher	Epic Games	Illinois A+	142	10

Summary


2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	100%	0%	50%	111.17
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	100%	0%	33%	105.67