Today's AWAD "mitty" explains that "mitty" is a personality type
inspired by Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" but
"mitty" didn't become a "syndrome" until it was recognized by a
psychologist writing in a British medical journal.  Thurber's
1947 story 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' was taken up by
psychologist and 'Walter Mitty Syndrome' was put forward in a
British medical journal as a clinical condition, which
manifested itself in compulsive fantasising. The title character
is a meek, mild-mannered, henpecked husband who escapes his
mundane everyday existence via heroic fantasies.  Thurber
invented a psychological disorder known as "The Lilies-and-
Bluebird Delusion". I wish Dr. Bill was around to explain that
delusion to us.  "The Nature of the American Male: A Study of
Pedestalism" and "The Lilies-and-Bluebird Delusion" appeared as
the first and fifth chapters in Is Sex Necessary?  P.S. Word has
come back about a medical condition Mitty invented called
"coreopsis".  "When Mitty was fantasizing