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Patient has typed 'what is wrong with me' into Google 27 times this year. Each search returns a mix of clinical content, listicles, and an ad for therapy. Patient reads the listicles. Does not click the therapy ad. Determines the issue is that they are 'just like this.' Closes the tab. Returns to the task that triggered the search, which is now less possible to do.
Chronic. The query is run when any emotion exceeds baseline intensity.
None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.
Patients with Chronic What-Is-Wrong-With-Me Query typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic What-Is-Wrong-With-Me Query 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 propria patalogica, 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.