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Patient had a minor disagreement with a coworker at 2 PM. It is now 11 PM. They have, in the last nine hours, mentally composed 47 better versions of what they should have said. Some are devastating. Some are funny. Some reference the coworker's personal life. None of them will be spoken. Patient now considers themselves a genius.
Chronic. L'esprit de l'escalier is, apparently, lifelong.
None. The perfect comeback is always six hours late.
Patients with Advanced Should-Have-Said Reviewing typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Advanced Should-Have-Said Reviewing — an advanced 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: Retractatio verborum absentis. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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