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Parent forwards chain messages, scam warnings, and inspirational quotes to a group chat of 11 relatives. None of them reply. Daily volume: 4-17 messages.
Will continue until phone stops working.
None. Muting the chat is noticed and resented.
Patients with Terminal Family-WhatsApp-Forward Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Family-WhatsApp-Forward Disorder 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 Viralis chainus intergenerationalis, 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.