Its symptoms often begin so mildly and progress so slowly that it's easy for friends and loved ones to deny them until one day there's a 'defining incident'; an incident so bizarre that not even the spouse, child or other loved one can ignore it or explain it away.
The 2013 report begins: "Every so often, a company changes our lives, not just with its products, but with its ethos.
It has been five years since Wyoming started enforcing a ban on roadside memorials after they began appearing so often that transportation officials felt they posed dangerous distractions and obstructions for drivers in a state that has had one of the nation's highest traffic fatality rates.
And everywhere the intense smell of smoke and the buzz of helicopters overhead.Tonight's events began, as riots so often have in American history, as a protest.
So it was that Jon's new rule began, as is so often the case in Game of Thrones, with death and difficult decisions.
Bouillier's taste for castrating harpies appears to begin, as it so often does, in the home, for dear old maman is an overbearing narcissist of epic proportions.
It all began, as it so often does, with the feeling of some presence, unshakeable, unnerving, which over time morphed into a blue shadow that drifted about, bleeding light around the edges.
This fascination began, as fascinations so often do, in childhood.
My adventure of heartbreak and woe began, as it so often does, with a new year's resolution.
This then began to happen so often that I kept a hammer by the door in case I ever needed to protect my girlfriend and my newborn son from some drunken, randy bruiser.
