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Patient has, in the last 11 minutes, delivered four dad jokes — three unprompted. The 9-year-old has groaned, laughed, and groaned again. Patient considers each groan a victory. Has a running mental list of setups awaiting a natural segue. There is rarely a natural segue. Patient delivers them anyway.
Chronic. Setups are catalogued by situation type.
None. The jokes are, apparently, the identity.
Patients with Severe Dad-Joke Deployment Compulsion typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Dad-Joke Deployment Compulsion 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 Humor paternalis incontinenta, 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.