Pre-Inferno Anxiety

Back on the blockheads' homeworld, the sun cooked people those who left the shade during the summer. The term for summer in their calendar is synonymous with "inferno". Obviously, the month of Inferno was something to be wary of. This manifests as an anxiety that develops in the later days of Not Inferno for a lot of homeworld blockheads, particularly those whose lifestyle or preferred forms of recreation involve going outside. It's the most common form of seasonally-occurring mental illness among blockhead populations.
Pre-inferno anxiety affects most surviving members of the six-and-sixty crew of the FIEBE, especially those who still operate on the Blockhead Calendar. Blockheads born on Inom are only in any sense affected by it when young, impressionable, and having recently been told about the month of Inferno.

Transmission & Vectors

It's just a natural mental illness that only arises in certain circumstances. Its only "infectious" quality is that impressionable blockhead young can be made to panic about summer if they don't have many summers under their belt.

Causes

Pre-Inferno Anxiety can first develop only when it is prohibitively dangerous to go outside during the summer, although a similar illness could occur if it were dangerous in the winter, or the wet season, or the dry season-- this particular illness requires that it is summer that is dangerous. It occurs more in individuals who spend a lot of time outside when it's Not Inferno, especially if their time outside is for recreational purposes.

Symptoms

Common symptoms include indecisiveness, aversion to change in temperature, and feelings of inadequacy. Sufferers often neglect physical, mental, or emotional needs in the pursuit optimizing their summers, often overexerting or even exposing themselves to dangerous levels of heat in cutting it fine.
On Inom, sufferers are perfectly aware that summer is not lethal here but still experience these symptoms.

Treatment

Well, a psychiatrist could obviously help, but there's not many of those on Inom. One of the things which has helped sufferers on Inom, however, has been participation in a non-blockhead society-- leaving the Blockhead Calendar and annual customs & associations behind helps assert summer as non-dangerous more than simply experiencing a non-lethal summer day.

Prognosis

It'll be a yearly issue which, on Inom, will extremely seldom lead to fatal decisions. In most cases, it will simply make spring a time of anxiety and discomfort.

Sequela

All resultant conditions are the product of decisions made while influenced by Pre-Inferno Anxiety.

Prevention

Don't grow up on a world where the sun is lethal in the summer.

History

It's older than blockhead recorded history.

Cultural Reception

It's an understood and accepted occurrence on the homeworld, but on Inom, it's seen as very irrational and kinda dumb.

Type

Mental

Origin

Natural

Cycle

Chronic, Acquired

Rarity

Rare

Affected Species

• Blockheads