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Patient recounts a story of themselves in which they alone are impressive, brave, and unusually funny. The story has been told four times this dinner.
Permanent. No one else remembers the story.
None. Interrupting is considered jealousy.
Patients with Chronic Legend-in-Their-Own-Mind Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Legend-in-Their-Own-Mind Syndrome 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 Herous autobiographicus fictivus, 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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