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Chronic Self-Sabotage Pattern

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CHRONIC
Diagnosis
Chronic Self-Sabotage Pattern
Demolitio sui repetita
Clinical description

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.

Prognosis

Pattern is familial and durable.

Recommended treatment

None. 'Something felt off' is the only consistent symptom.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Chronic Self-Sabotage Pattern typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

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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