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Partner's phone has not been face-up in the patient's presence since March. Every buzz is followed by a swift retrieval. The passcode has been changed twice.
Transparency unavailable.
None. 'Why do you care?' is the only answer.
Patients with Chronic Phone-Face-Down Condition typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Phone-Face-Down Condition 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 Telephonum subversus permanens, 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.