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The phrase has its roots in WW2. When a soldier came into a medical [facility] with a limb or multiple limbs detatched from his body, the nurses would call [the patient] a "basket case". As in they had to bring the soldier to them in a basket. Modern day usage is to describe someone that is in need of extreme [assistance](mental or physical).
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