Uh oh, I think sometimes I suffer from Refrigerator Door Disease or RDD, where I just peer inside and find that there’s nothing good to eat.
And definitely, when getting ready for special nights on the town, I go through many bouts of Obsessive Wardrobe Change Disorder (OWCD).
Huh? OK, I’m kidding.
These two absurd non-existing health conditions come courtesy of Health Ranger Mike Adams of News Target, who wrote a satiric piece to stress that drug companies invent fictitious ailments to scare us Americans into thinking we have a disorder or dysfunction so we’ll buy drugs to "cure us."
Check out some other creative syndromes Mike invented:
- Repetitive Remote Disorder (RDD)
- Traffic Light Anticipation Disorder (TLAD)
- Obsessive Hosiery Dislocation Disorder (OHDD)
- And others
Just for the heck of it, I’ll add a few more serious health hazards that Mike somehow omitted.
- Late-Night TV Syndrome (LNTS) — when you’re glued to the tube for hours and can’t remember what you saw the next day
- Technology-Buying Disorder (TBD) — when you can’t resist buying the latest new gadgets. (Incidentally, I suffer big from this! You mean they’ll soon have drugs to cure me of my addiction? LOL.)
- Negative Thinking Disorder (NTD) — when you just can’t see the rosy side of things.
- Phone Chatting Syndrome (PCS) — when folks (mostly women) talk for hours to friends about nonsensical chit-chat, something that irks the heck out of their male significant others.
- Book Writing Disorder (BWD) — when you think you have a book in you, even if you have absolutely nothing interesting to say, but you write it anyway. (Eesh, let’s hope that’s not why I wrote my book, SUGAR SHOCK!)
- Carb Idiocy Disorder (CID) — when folks stupidly eat quickie carbohydrate crap over and over again. (OK, I concede, this isn’t funny in the least, because it’s probably true for millions of Americans.)
For chuckles, read Mike’s entire, entertaining article now.
By the way, coming up soon, look for articles from yours truly at the News Target website.