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Patient's Instagram grid contains, in the middle, a single black square posted June 2020. Around it: brunches, gym selfies, sunsets, a cousin's wedding. The square has not been deleted. Deleting it would, patient feels, send a message. Leaving it up sends a different message. Patient has, across six years, not engaged with a single post about the cause the square referenced. The square is, structurally, the engagement.
Chronic. The grid contains, unresolved, the evidence.
None. The square will outlive the relevance of the square.
Patients with Chronic Black-Square-Graveyard Profile typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Black-Square-Graveyard Profile 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 Imago virtutis decolorata, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.