Here's another podcast-related disorder (and the running joke runs on):
Compulsive Podcast Bookmark Disorder
I genuinely wish I was making this up, but much the same as the "podcast anxiety" phenomenon I identified a number of weeks ago, I can speak to this one from first-hand experience as it something that I suffer from...
CPBD results when a podcast listeners compulsively creates far-too-frequent bookmarks on their mp3 player while listening to a podcast. This condition results from a podcast listener experiencing a profound sense of anxiety, even abject terror, over the possibility that they may lose their place in their podcast due to an inadvertent pressing of a button on their mp3 player.
A positive diagnosis CPBD is arrived upon by observing a patient bookmark a podcast more frequently than every 5 minutes.
Common treatments include weekend visits to the podcast asylum, educating the patient about the use of the key lock feature on their mp3 player, or drops of coconut oil under the tongue, preferably administered by a dusky handmaiden.
G'day Derek,
I'll add this to the list of conditions and also introduce you via photos to our dusky handmaidens. Give me a day or so to update the post. Would you be willing to relocate and be our specialist in this matter?
Professor Hopkins
Lee, I'd be honoured. It's the least I can do for the greater good of the Commonwealth.
And "dusky handmaidens"??!!! I don't know why that's sound so funny but I laugh out loud every time....
Move over Sven ...
Your condition added, plus photos of our dusky handmaidens (some not so dusky) also now online for your viewing pleasure.
Yours,
Professor Hopkins