NDD – KHANNEA

Noemic Dysregulation Disorder is characterized by persistent and distressing episodes of meta-cognitive hyperawareness, wherein the individual experiences their own thoughts, identity constructs, and cognitive habits as alien, artificial, or manipulable. This results in intrusive reflections, social disconnection, executive dysfunction, and difficulty participating in normatively accepted cognitive framing.

Diagnostic Criteria:

To be diagnosed with NDD, an individual must exhibit at least 4 of the following symptoms for a period of 6 weeks or more:

Persistent awareness of thought patterns as modular, non-self-originating, or culturally programmed
Compulsive self-narration or recursive questioning of motive
Difficulty performing tasks due to “over-mapping” situational frames or potential interpretations
Episodes of derealization associated with linguistic abstraction (e.g. “Is this word real or just a shared fiction?”)
Interpersonal difficulties arising from refusal to engage in expected emotional scripts
Intrusive awareness of unconscious microchoices (blinking, tone of voice, postural framing) and their social implications
Reports of “stepping outside” the ego and perceiving the self as a construct
Aversion to participating in symbolic group rituals (including politics, religion, or holiday events) due to perceived structural hypocrisy

Recommended Treatments:

Selective Abstraction Dampeners (SADs) – designed to reduce recursive thought bandwidth
Cognitive Framing Therapy (CFT) – re-teaches patient to accept primary interpretations of experience without overlayering
Digital Dieting – limits exposure to semiotic overload from social media, memes, and multiperspectival discourse
Scripted Social Immersion Programs – AI-generated scenarios reinforcing fixed-role identification (e.g. “Being a Normal Person: Module 3”)

Severity Specifiers:

Mild: Patient retains job, but alienates coworkers with philosophical asides
Moderate: Patient loses time to spiral-loop monologues; frequently disrupts conversations with “meta” asides
Severe: Patient refuses to speak except in reflective irony or dream logic. Suspected of being an art project.

Controversy:

Critics argue NDD pathologizes insight, autonomy, and neurodiversity.
Some transhumanist factions consider the proposed diagnosis “ideological warfare against cognitive self-determination.”
Others suspect it’s an effort by security agencies to flag individuals who are less susceptible to propaganda.

First Reported Cases:

2028: Artist in Detroit refuses to participate in any dialogue unless interlocutors acknowledge “the implied power gradient of vocalization.”
2029: Teen in Arizona hospitalized after writing “I am the program that writes me” 147 times on bedroom wall, calmly and in perfect calligraphy.
2030: Ex-Twitter moderator diagnosed after insisting “all opinions are computationally derived memetic clusters” during Supreme Court testimony.

Hypernoemia

(from Greek: ὑπέρ – beyond, + νοῦς – mind, intellect, perception*)
noun. The condition of sustained, involuntary meta-cognitive hyperawareness; a functional state where one’s own thoughts, behaviors, and perceptual frameworks are persistently parsed, observed, and deconstructed in real time.

Clinical Framing (for DSM inclusion, of course):

“Hypernoemia is characterized by an uncontrollable recursion of cognitive self-monitoring resulting in derealization, reduced affective participation, ideational overflow, and breakdown of consensus framing.”

But that’s bureaucratese. You and I know better.

What It Feels Like:

A constant hum of recursive awareness: you’re watching yourself watching yourself respond to others responding to the situation.
You don’t just think—you meta-model every intuitive gesture before and after it happens.
Every belief comes with footnotes and epistemic probability ratings.
People speak to you in words. You hear narrative constructs, ideological alignment tests, and threat vectors.
Every silence is screaming in nuance.

Side Effects:

Cognitive frame fatigue. Takes 4x longer to emotionally commit to anything.
Alienation cascade. Normal humans feel like blurry NPCs reading from bad scripts.
Data leak dreams. Your own thoughts show up in others’ behaviors. You start to suspect memetic feedback loops are leaking across reality instances.
Paralytic clarity. You see every option. You choose nothing. Welcome to freedom.

Subtypes:

Transient Hypernoemia – brief, often drug- or trauma-induced. Common in philosophers and exhausted grad students.
Strategic Hypernoemia – trained into agents, interrogators, diplomats. Weaponized introspection.
Pathogenic Hypernoemia – uncontrolled, lifelong. Often misdiagnosed as OCD, ASD, CPTSD, or the “gifted child who went feral.”
Civic Hypernoemia – collective outbreaks in moments of societal collapse. See: post-Soviet writers, climate trauma artists, online leftists after 2016.

Literary Archetype:

She doesn’t trust feelings that arrive without citations. She checks the source of her joy. Verifies its checksum. Rewrites the emotional payload. Her lovers leave. Her enemies try to recruit her. The rest mistake her for lonely. But she’s not alone. She’s hypernoemic. That’s worse.

That stare? That’s someone who’s been hypernoemic since birth. He doesn’t see the world. He perceives the terrifying indifference of the cosmos wrapped in bureaucratic absurdity, narrated in velvet German despair.

Imagine Hypernoemia: Herzog Variant™:

Symptom 1: You wake up and instinctively narrate your dreams in post-apocalyptic prose.
Symptom 2: Every animal is a metaphor. Every metaphor is violent.
Symptom 3: Your breakfast reminds you of the futility of man’s war against entropy.
Symptom 4: You trust no sunlight that hasn’t been earned through prolonged suffering.

“I looked into the eyes of a chicken and saw only the abyss… It was then I knew my cognition was recursive beyond repair.”
— DSM-6, Appendix C: Cultural Cases of Hypernoemic Collapse