Occupying Minds

One wonders, does extreme preoccupation
possibly qualify as a medical condition
when it crowds out all other normal
functions of a questing mind? Might
such a singular focus on a particular issue
register as a slight unhinging brought 
courtesy of an all-enveloping concern by
no means monopolized by you alone but
shared universally? A newly emerged
pathological condition fit to respond to 
a new pathogen evidently fixes the mind
to dwell incessantly upon dread potentials.
Not without cause for one has only to
open eyes and ears to the mouths of those
expounding on the fearsome toll this
zoonotic takes as it rampages through
time zones ravaging entire populations. A
mutating, elusive, silent predator instilling
panic in its wake. Shedding from its victims
to infect countless others, this dire threat
occupies the mind before invading the body.