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Patient has convinced themselves that everyone they know has, somehow, figured out adult life in a way they have not. Their friends, in fact, have not. The friends are texting other friends the exact same thing. Everyone is, privately, faking it. Nobody has gotten the memo everyone thinks everyone else has gotten.
Chronic. Activated at the opening of any group chat.
None. The shared delusion is structural.
Patients with Acute Everyone-Else-Has-It-Figured-Out Delusion typically present with some or all of the following:
Acute Everyone-Else-Has-It-Figured-Out Delusion is an acute behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Fides in universali competentia — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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