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Patient refers to podcast hosts they have never met as 'my friends.' Becomes visibly distressed when said hosts take vacations or change format.
Incurable. Will intensify when favorite podcast announces a hiatus.
None. Real-life friendship attempts result in confused disappointment.
Patients with Advanced Parasocial Collapse typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Advanced Parasocial Collapse 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 Amicitia fictiva profunda, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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