Pataki Syndrome

"Pataki Syndrome"
noun
*When an individual (regardless of sex, race, or religion) shows love and affection by demeaning insults.

"Wow Jenn is really mean to you bro!"

"Naw man it's the Pataki Syndrome she's secretly in love with me."

by Young Denzy Wash April 23, 2017

Helga Pataki Syndrome

Loving someone so much that you hate them with the same instensity because you're afraid of rejection so you cover up your true feelings with the opposite.

Helga: Arnold! What a do-goody geek, how I loathe him... and yet... (silly music plays and she starts blabbing some poetry that she wrote about him)
Helga Pataki syndrome

by snejana October 17, 2012

Helga Pataki Syndrome

When a person does what Helga does to Arnold on the tv show “Hey Arnold."

When a girl or guy says nasty hurtful things to someone; but the person that is saying the nasty things really likes the person that he/she is bullying.

“Hey maybe that girl has the Helga Pataki Syndrome.”

by boc277 January 6, 2008

Pataki Syndrome

When a person loves you but pretends to hate you. She is secretly in love but is it afraid to admit it. It is exemplified by the Hey Arnold character Helga Pataki who was secretly in love with Arnold.

She has Pataki Syndrome for John. She acts like she dont like him but she is obsessed with the guy.

by anonymous December 28, 2025