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Patient's Letterboxd watchlist contains 847 films. Patient's Netflix 'my list' contains 94 shows. Patient's bookmarks folder contains an additional 14 YouTube video-essays about films they have not watched. Patient spends, on most Saturday nights, 40 minutes scrolling the watchlists and, ultimately, watches a rerun of an old favorite. The watchlists have not, in the relevant sense, been reduced since 2022. They only grow.
Chronic. The list is, structurally, a hope; the Saturday rerun is, structurally, a decision.
None. Adding to the list is, apparently, easier than selecting from it.
Patients with Chronic Watchlist-Graveyard Accumulation typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Watchlist-Graveyard Accumulation 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 Index spectandi aeternus, 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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