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Patient's youngest is 3 and recently sleeping through the night. Patient's partner has asked, in a casual tone at dinner, 'what do you think about a third?' Patient has now not slept for two nights. Has a pro-and-con document open on their laptop. Has added 'I'm tired' to the con column four times.
Chronic. The conversation is revisited every six months.
None. No decision has been made, only deferred.
Patients with Severe 'Are We Having Another' Panic typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe 'Are We Having Another' Panic 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 Horror infantis sequentis, 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.