UNTREATABLE.COM
Condition File

Acute Restaurant-Menu Paralysis

UNTREATABLE.COM Institute of Incurable Conditions
ACUTE
Diagnosis
Acute Restaurant-Menu Paralysis
Seleccio culinaris indecisiva
Clinical description

Patient cannot choose. Reads the menu three times. Asks the table what they're having. Orders the same thing anyway. Has cried mildly on two occasions.

Prognosis

The choice is the problem.

Recommended treatment

None. Pre-reading the menu online did not help.

Diagnose me with this
πŸ“ Browse full list

Common symptoms

Patients with Acute Restaurant-Menu Paralysis typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Acute Restaurant-Menu Paralysis 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 β€” 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 Seleccio culinaris indecisiva β€” a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.

Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.