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Patient carries a 64-oz bottle with half-hour drinking goals. Urinates every 40 minutes. Feels 'behind' if the bottle has not been refilled.
Kidneys holding on.
None. One forgotten sip feels like failure.
Patients with Acute Hydration Obsession typically present with some or all of the following:
Acute Hydration Obsession belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Aquae dependentia performativa, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.