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Patient's public musical taste is gritty, acoustic, indie. Spotify Wrapped tells a different story. Patient's most-played artist this year is Taylor Swift. By a wide margin. Patient knows every lyric to Cruel Summer. Has cried, in the car alone, to All Too Well (the 10-minute version). Has, to date, told no one. The Spotify account is, for this reason, set to private.
Chronic. The streaming count grows every weekend.
None. A public hard exterior is load-bearing.
Patients with Chronic Taylor-Swift Secret Listener typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Chronic Taylor-Swift Secret Listener — a chronic condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Cantus feminalis ocultus. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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