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Patient has not spoken to their college best friend in 8 months. Neither of them did anything wrong. The last message was 'we should catch up soon!' in February. It is now October. Patient looks at their profile every 11 days and feels a small, specific sadness they cannot name. The catch-up will not happen.
Chronic. The silence grows weight over time.
None. Each passing week makes breaking it harder.
Patients with Chronic Friendship Attrition Grief typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Chronic Friendship Attrition Grief 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 Luctus amicitiae silentio erosus, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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