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Patient placed their sunglasses on top of their head 20 minutes ago and has spent the last 18 of those minutes looking for them. Has checked: the kitchen counter, the car, their bag, between couch cushions, and the fridge. Has asked their partner, 'have you seen my sunglasses?' The partner, without looking up, said 'they're on your head.' They were.
Chronic. Each episode deepens the certainty that it won't happen again.
None. The head remains, statistically, the primary storage location.
Patients with Terminal Sunglasses-On-Head Amnesia typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Sunglasses-On-Head Amnesia 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 Ocularia solis capitis obliviosus, 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.