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Advanced Cant-Cry-At-Movies-Anymore Phenomenon

UNTREATABLE.COM Institute of Incurable Conditions
ADVANCED
Diagnosis
Advanced Cant-Cry-At-Movies-Anymore Phenomenon
Lacrimatio cinematica extincta
Clinical description

Patient, once, cried easily at films. Has not cried at a movie in 14 months. Watched Coco last week. Nothing. Watched a genuinely sad documentary about a dog. Nothing. Can feel the part of them that should be crying. Cannot access it. Has now googled 'why can I not cry anymore' three times.

Prognosis

Chronic. Emotional bandwidth has been throttled.

Recommended treatment

None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Advanced Cant-Cry-At-Movies-Anymore Phenomenon typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Patients diagnosed with Advanced Cant-Cry-At-Movies-Anymore Phenomenon present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.

The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Lacrimatio cinematica extincta, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.

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