UNTREATABLE.COM
Patient has not driven a vehicle since 2021 despite holding a valid license. Requires chauffeuring to every social event. Controls the aux cord with the authority of a FM radio host. Has a documented 'passenger princess' routine involving Stanley cup, charged phone, sunglasses, and a specific foot position on the dashboard. The driver is always slightly tired.
Chronic. Worsens after every relationship begins.
None. Learning to drive is a retired option.
Patients with Terminal Passenger Princess Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Passenger Princess Syndrome 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 Sedes secundus regalis permanens, 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.