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Patient had a 22-minute work call, said hi to their neighbor, and made brief eye contact with a delivery driver. They are now, at 10:47 AM, unable to engage further with humans until at least Thursday. Is ignoring the group chat. Has hidden the phone under a cushion. The cushion has, somehow, become a boundary.
Chronic. Recharge takes 48-72 hours of silence.
None. The group chat is, apparently, a horror.
Patients with Acute Social Battery Depletion typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Acute Social Battery Depletion — an acute condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Fatigatio sociale absoluta. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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