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Patient sent a completely normal text to an acquaintance 22 minutes ago. Has now replayed the text in their mind approximately 94 times. Has identified six possible misinterpretations. Has drafted a clarifying follow-up. Has decided the follow-up would make it worse. The acquaintance has not read the text yet. They are at dinner.
Chronic. Every sent text triggers the review cycle.
None. The unread receipt is the primary cause of the spiral.
Patients with Severe Post-Text Why-Did-I-Say-That Replay typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Post-Text Why-Did-I-Say-That Replay 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 Repetitio mentis post-nuntium, 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.