Patient has a dash cam, a rear dash cam, and an interior-facing dash cam. Reviews the footage for 40 minutes each evening. Has a folder titled 'evidence' on their laptop. Has submitted two clips to their insurance company this year unprompted. Has not been in an accident.
Chronic. Expanding each upgrade cycle.
None. A fourth camera has been ordered.
Patients with Chronic Dash-Cam Paranoia typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Dash-Cam Paranoia 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 Observatio perpetua proprii volantis, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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