Patient has ended three otherwise-functional relationships for reasons they cannot, on reflection, articulate. Each one is replaced within 90 days with something demonstrably worse.
Pattern is familial and durable.
None. 'Something felt off' is the only consistent symptom.
Patients with Chronic Self-Sabotage Pattern typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Self-Sabotage Pattern 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 Demolitio sui repetita, 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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