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Patient is asleep on the couch. They are audibly snoring. The TV is on something they insisted they wanted to watch. When gently asked if they are sleeping, patient opens their eyes briefly and replies, 'no, I'm watching.' Then closes eyes. Resumes snoring within 14 seconds. Will, in the morning, insist they saw the ending.
Chronic. The denial is stronger than the evidence.
None. Turning the TV off causes immediate wakefulness.
Patients with Chronic Just-Resting-My-Eyes Denial typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Just-Resting-My-Eyes Denial 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 Somnus publicus negatus, 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.