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Patient is fine, objectively. Has a job. Has friends. Has a roof. At 2:14 PM on a Wednesday, patient is crying in the car in a grocery store parking lot and cannot articulate why. Has now added a second layer to the feeling — guilt, specifically, for feeling this way when, by external measures, there is nothing to feel this way about. The guilt makes the feeling worse. The Googling begins.
Chronic. The meta-feeling about the feeling compounds the feeling.
None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.
Patients with Terminal Why-Do-I-Feel-This-Way Spiral typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Why-Do-I-Feel-This-Way Spiral 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 Quaestio emotionalis sine responso, 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.