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Patient will not commit to any action until they have seen it go viral for three other people first. By then, it is no longer viral. Patient is now two trends behind.
Will always be slightly late.
None. Original thought has not been attempted since 2019.
Patients with Chronic Trend-Chasing Paralysis typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Trend-Chasing Paralysis 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 Viralis expectatio stagnans, 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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