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Patient's partner has asked, for the 19th time this year, whether she looks fat in the outfit. Every answer is wrong. Silence is also wrong.
Permanent. The correct answer does not exist. This is known and has been accepted.
Pivot to a distraction. Mention a different outfit. Mention the weather. Mention a dog.
Patients with Chronic 'Do I Look Fat' Trap Navigation typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic 'Do I Look Fat' Trap Navigation 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 Quaestio periculosa vestimentalis, 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.