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Chronic No-Effort Normalization

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Diagnosis
Chronic No-Effort Normalization
Negligentia acceptata stylisticus
Clinical description

Patient has reframed neglect as their partner's 'style.' They just show love differently. They just don't do texting. They just aren't big on birthdays. This has gone on for four birthdays.

Prognosis

Will adjust the standard again at the next failure.

Recommended treatment

None. The style has not evolved.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Chronic No-Effort Normalization typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Chronic No-Effort Normalization 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 Negligentia acceptata stylisticus, 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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