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Patient posted a carousel captioned 'finally feeling myself again' three hours after crying in a CVS parking lot. The carousel is, itself, from 11 days ago. Every post is a performance of recovery from something patient has not, in fact, recovered from. The Close Friends see this. They are not fooled. Neither, deep down, is patient.
Chronic. The performance is now the recovery.
None. The likes do not resolve the underlying state.
Patients with Pathological Living-My-Best-Life Performance typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Pathological Living-My-Best-Life Performance — a pathological 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: Ostentatio vitae optimae fictiva. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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