Main Character Syndrome isn’t a diagnosis — it’s a lifestyle! The condition might’ve been described in Ye Olden Days as that “record-scratch” moment when a person entered a room ...

Call it MAGA main character syndrome—the grim determination to forensically track down, and then act out, the smallest of perceived slights as evidence that the drama of history is always and ...

Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental ...

If you’ve been hanging around on TikTok or Instagram lately, you’ve probably come across the term “main character syndrome.” At first, it sounds kind of positive, right? Like someone who ...

I’ve spent enough years navel-gazing, both at the personal and the professional level, that when “main character syndrome” started trending on TikTok and Instagram in 2020, I wasn’t ...

Main character syndrome (MCS) isn’t really a syndrome. It was the perfect balm for a cultural zeitgeist that for the longest time encouraged self-effacement for the welfare of others at the cost ...

“Main Character Syndrome” is a well-known term on social media that describes a confident, self-important person. But experts are worried that this behavior may be unhealthy and even teetering ...