Patient, at a work event, is genuinely convinced they will be tapped on the shoulder by a man with a clipboard and escorted from the building for not knowing enough. Has a PhD. Has 14 years of experience. Still thinks this. Has thought it since their first job.
Chronic. Does not improve with promotion. Gets worse.
Untreatable. Compliments are deflected. Criticism is internalized fully.
Patients with Chronic Clipboard-Man Dread typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Clipboard-Man Dread was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Fraus sui percepta persistens โ fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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