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Patient cannot stop thinking. About anything. Currently replaying a conversation from 2013 and simultaneously planning the logistics of a trip they have not booked to a country they have not chosen. It is 2:04 AM. They have work in the morning.
Permanent. The brain has been running since birth and has no off switch.
None. Meditation apps only add a seventh tab to the mental browser.
Patients with Terminal Mental-Browser Overflow typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Mental-Browser Overflow 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 Cogitatio continua perpetua, 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.