Patient assumes every message, DM, and voice note will be screenshotted, leaked, and quoted back to them in 2031. Has begun dictating correspondence in the third person.
Permanent. The group chat has already betrayed them once.
None. Disappearing messages only intensify the surveillance.
Patients with Chronic Screenshot Paranoia typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Screenshot Paranoia is a chronic behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Documentum viralis perpetua — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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