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Patient has framed their relationship as a heroic effort to save their partner from a series of problems the partner created. Patient is now exhausted, financially down, and describing this as love.
Mission ongoing. Objective unclear.
None. Partner has been 'so close' for 5 years.
Patients with Chronic Rescue-Mission Romance typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Rescue-Mission Romance 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 Missio salvationis identificata, 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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