It’s guilt about living in a modern society. That’s my diagnosis.
I think that may have been the beginning-like a form of liberal guilt-but somewhere along the line they learned to like the attention and the control of having their ridiculous demands met-plain old attention getting behavior-and at the risk of being pounced on by some of my own gender for pointing it out-did you notice that most of the “sufferers” are female? That kind of nonsense makes us look more prone to neurotic behavior...