The Grim Archives · Entity 019
P.H.L.E.G.M.
Paranoid Horror Living Excessively Guarding Maladiesaka PHLEGM
This one carries imagined illnesses professionally.
A nervous little companion for health worries, symptom spirals and the imagination at its most dramatic.
- Temperament
- Damp / Nervous / Medically convinced
- Archive risk
- Low
- Personality
- Medical doom goblin
A familiar kind of company
Often adopted by those experiencing…
- Health worries
- Catastrophic thinking
- Constant symptom checking
- Fear of the unknown
- Seeking reassurance
- Imagining the worst
Meet your little companion
A small companion.
A very large first-aid kit.
P.H.L.E.G.M. takes an extraordinary interest in ordinary aches. In the Archive, he carries imagined illnesses with considerable seriousness.
He guards medicine cabinets, keeps tissues within reach and becomes unusually alert around symptom-search results. The archivists keep him company. They do not let him write the diagnoses.
- Googles symptoms spiritually.
- Guards medicine cabinets.
- Carries invisible illnesses dramatically.
- May encourage unnecessary hydration.
Field-guide observations
Small signs of quieter worries.
In P.H.L.E.G.M.’s file, the archivists keep a little space for days when imagination has less paperwork to submit.
- A symptom-search spiral loses a little momentum.
- There is less urgency to name every sensation.
- Attention finds its way back to the rest of the day.
An extract from the records
From the archive
The medicine cabinet was guarded. Nobody had asked for this.
Recorded incident
P.H.L.E.G.M. requested a first-aid kit for the first-aid kit.
When asked what was wrong with it, he replied:
“Nothing yet.”
The request remains under consideration.
A little company for the what-if moments
Take P.H.L.E.G.M. home.
£8
