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Pathological Outrage-Fatigue Collapse

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PATHOLOGICAL
Diagnosis
Pathological Outrage-Fatigue Collapse
Indignatio exhausta permanens
Clinical description

Patient, across the last 22 months, has been outraged about: 14 international events, 9 domestic ones, four cultural controversies, and a podcast they heard about but did not listen to. The emotional ceiling has, at some point, been hit. Patient now scrolls past the same kinds of headlines that, two years ago, would have triggered an Instagram story. Does not, anymore. Feels guilty about this. Scrolls past the guilt too.

Prognosis

Chronic. Each new crisis registers as slightly less than the last.

Recommended treatment

None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Pathological Outrage-Fatigue Collapse typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Patients diagnosed with Pathological Outrage-Fatigue Collapse 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 Indignatio exhausta permanens, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.

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