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Patient was, 11 days ago, genuinely excited about the person they were seeing. Then they watched them chew. Then they heard them say 'no worries' three times in one conversation. Then they saw them run for a bus. It is over. There is no returning. Patient knows this makes no sense. Patient is unbothered by the diagnosis. The bus-running is unforgivable.
Chronic. Triggers are infinite and always minor.
None. The ick, once received, does not retract.
Patients with Advanced Ick Cascade Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Advanced Ick Cascade Syndrome belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Repulsio trivialis fatalis, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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