R.A.’s Reviews > Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland > Status Update

'one contemporary book called it "the Belfast syndrome," a malady that was said to result from "living with constant terror, where the enemy is not easily identifiable and the violence is indiscriminate and arbitrary." Doctors found, paradoxically, that the people most prone to this type of anxiety were not the active combatants, who were out on the street and had a sense of agency, but the women and children...'