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Terminal 'I Don't Know What I Want' Ordering Paralysis

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Diagnosis
Terminal 'I Don't Know What I Want' Ordering Paralysis
Indecisio alimentaria interminabilis
Clinical description

Patient has asked his partner where she wants to eat 14 times this month. Every answer has been 'I don't know, where do you want to go?' No restaurant has been reached.

Prognosis

Hopeless. The loop pre-dates relationships and pre-dates menus.

Recommended treatment

Suggest three options. All three will be rejected. Suggest a fourth.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Terminal 'I Don't Know What I Want' Ordering Paralysis typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Terminal 'I Don't Know What I Want' Ordering Paralysis 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 Indecisio alimentaria interminabilis, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.

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