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Patient drives home from work while re-litigating a Slack message their coworker Dave sent at 2:47 PM. Has drafted eleven responses in their head. Each is sharper than the last. Has missed two exits. Arrives home and cannot remember the drive. Dave is doing fine.
Chronic. The commute is, structurally, group therapy.
Untreatable. Podcasts make it worse.
Patients with Acute Work-Stress Commute Rumination typically present with some or all of the following:
Acute Work-Stress Commute Rumination 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 Ruminatio laboris itinerala, 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.