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Patient has structured their entire social media presence around the cultivation of 'aura' — a calculated grid, well-timed silences, aesthetic slow-mo videos, carefully ambiguous captions. Has never posted anything spontaneous in 22 months. A friend sent them an unflattering candid. Patient made them delete it. It was a text thread of three people.
Chronic. Aura maintenance is now full-time labor.
None. The grid, apparently, is a curated experience.
Patients with Pathological Aura Farming Obsession typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Pathological Aura Farming Obsession present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Cultura imaginis publica, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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