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When a message goes unanswered for 14 hours, patient constructs increasingly elaborate narratives involving lost phones, unexpected work trips, and a family emergency. The message was 'okay.'
Excuses get better with practice.
None. The truth is worse than the story.
Patients with Chronic Late-Reply Delusion typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Late-Reply Delusion 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 Excusatio fabricata responsi, 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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