combat fatigue

combat fatigue
   an unwillingness or inability to continue fighting
   Not just weariness from broken nights, poor shelter, irregular food, unchanged clothing, lice, ulcers, and the other discomforts of active service but a reaction to prolonged exposure to danger and seeing the death and mutilation of comrades:
    He is suffering from what you call combat fatigue, and is subject to fits of depression and hallucination. (Shaw, 1946)
   As with battle fatigue, it was difficult for those undergoing the same dangers and privations to distinguish between psychological disturbance and cowardice.

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