You probably don't know what exactly shock is, but that's ok because it took me a long time to figure it out. In a nutshell, it's real bad. Shock is often used is such a broad sense to describe disbelief or startle at "shocking" events happening around them. It's very commonly used to describe someone freezing in the fact of trauma because they don't know how to respond. But in a medical sense of the word shock is a lot more serious and means something more along the lines of complete circulatory collapse, which is to say you don't have adequate blood flow to provide oxygen and nutrients to your body and it. shuts. it. down. See how that can be problematic?
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