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A coworker, in March 2024, revealed the ending of a film patient had not yet seen. Patient, at the time, said 'oh, that's fine.' It was not fine. Has, since, held the grudge across 22 months. The coworker does not remember the incident. Patient remembers, specifically, the sentence, the office microwave behind the coworker, and the lighting that day. Has mentioned it four times to their partner. Their partner, at this point, says 'yeah, you've said.'
Chronic. The grudge has calendar rights.
None. The film has, ironically, since been rewatched.
Patients with Pathological Spoiler-Rage Holding typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Spoiler-Rage Holding 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 Ira post-revelationem eterna, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.