The article insinuates that there exists such a term that is in use; if that is the case, I wouldn't malign it for conveying that situation.
Still I can't see how someone in the medical profession would stick the -itis suffix on something that isn't any sort of inflammation, even out of jest.
Even, say, "give-up-osis" would be an improvement; an "osis" is just a condition (neurosis, psychosis, ...).
"itis" is used in the vernacular for making up words for obsessive preoccupations or imaginary illnesses and such; that formation style is not fitting in a serious medical setting at all.
Still I can't see how someone in the medical profession would stick the -itis suffix on something that isn't any sort of inflammation, even out of jest.
Even, say, "give-up-osis" would be an improvement; an "osis" is just a condition (neurosis, psychosis, ...).
"itis" is used in the vernacular for making up words for obsessive preoccupations or imaginary illnesses and such; that formation style is not fitting in a serious medical setting at all.