Symptomania

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Symptomania

n.
the fantasy that there’s some elaborate diagnosis out there that neatly captures the kind of person you are, tying together your many flaws and contradictions into a single theme—which wouldn’t necessarily sort out the mess inside your head but would at least let you mark it with a little sign so people know to walk around it.

From symptom + mania.

Solysium

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Occhiolism

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Deep Gut

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Xeno

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Fawtle

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Leidenfreude

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