UNTREATABLE.COM
Patient cannot begin a meal without a video playing. A show they are watching, a show they have already watched, a YouTube essay, a TikTok loop, or, in a pinch, a compilation of something they do not actively care about. Has, once, eaten in silence and found it unsettling. Has eaten in front of three different screens at once (phone, laptop, TV) during a single dinner. Food, alone, is no longer the event.
Chronic. Silent eating produces physical discomfort.
None. The phone is, now, the seasoning.
Patients with Terminal Screen-Required Mealtime typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Terminal Screen-Required Mealtime — a terminal condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Cibus sine videographica impossibilis. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.