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Patient has been drafting a reply text for 34 minutes. Has written and deleted the message four times. Has asked two friends for 'gut check.' Has modified the punctuation six times. Has considered, briefly, the emotional weight of a period versus a comma. Sends the final version. It reads: 'yeah sounds good!'
Chronic. Reply time expanded from 40 seconds to 34 minutes.
None. Each word is, apparently, load-bearing.
Patients with Pathological Overthinking Text Draft Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Overthinking Text Draft Disorder was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Redactio nuntii compulsiva — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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