What is Barclay Syndrome?
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The type of syndrome you assign to somebody when they are obsessed with self-diagnosis and are very overractive.
Name is due to the character Reginald Barclay from Star Trek. Whom in one episode kept giving himself all sorts of self-diagnosis.
Also known as (more technically) hypercondriac
Person A: I've had the slight dizziness and clammy skin. I looked online and I think I have the
swine flu .
Person B: No, you just have Barclay Syndrome.
Barclay: I think I have Terellian Death Syndrome!
Person B: No, you just have Barclay Syndrome
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