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Patient believes the music, films, and politics of their adolescence represent the last time anything was good. Cannot name a song released in the past five years.
Worsens with every new Spotify release. No known remission.
Incurable. A reunion tour will only deepen the condition.
Patients with Chronic Nostalgia Poisoning typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Nostalgia Poisoning 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 Retro vibes terminalis, 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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