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Patient has a $4.99 app that claims to translate dog barks into English. The app has told them their golden retriever Charlie is 'lonely,' 'hungry,' and 'wants to play' in combinations that do not correspond to any recognizable pattern. Patient believes the app. Charlie has never seemed lonely.
Chronic. App store reviews have not deterred the belief.
Untreatable. The app has detected a new emotion today.
Patients with Pathological Dog-Translator App Belief typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Pathological Dog-Translator App Belief — a pathological condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Fides in applicationem lingualis canis. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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