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Patient's public persona — across Instagram, LinkedIn, group-chat contributions, and small-talk at work — is a person who is thriving, grounded, and funny. Patient's private state — between 7 PM and bed, alone or with their partner — is a person who is, on most days, exhausted, anxious, and not sure who the public person is. The two have diverged so far that switching between them has begun to require, measurably, a full transition ritual in the car.
Chronic. The gap widens with each successful performance.
None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.
Patients with Chronic Public-Me Versus-Private-Me Fracture typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Public-Me Versus-Private-Me Fracture 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 Scissio publica privata totalis, 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.