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Patient has a framed photo of the exact moment they met their cat Pickles at the Humane Society. Looks at it weekly. Gets misty. Has told the adoption story at dinners where it was not relevant. Pickles has been home for six years. The photo is in the hallway.
Chronic. Anniversary triggers intensify the loop.
None. Pickles is currently asleep on a pile of clean laundry.
Patients with Severe Cat-Adoption-Photo Meditation typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Cat-Adoption-Photo Meditation 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 Imago adoptionis contemplatio — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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