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Patient has, across 40 minutes, written a 280-character response to a stranger's take on a foreign-policy issue. Has edited the response three times. Has deployed the phrase 'actually, the historical context is.' Has cited a source they skim-read once. The stranger, seven time zones away, replies at 4:14 AM patient's time with a single word. Patient drafts a reply. It is now 11:47 PM on a Thursday. Work is in seven hours.
Chronic. Each reply requires another reply.
None. The stranger, seven time zones away, will not, apparently, be persuaded by this particular thread.
Patients with Severe Comment-Section Geopolitics typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Comment-Section Geopolitics 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 Commentarium geopoliticum profundum, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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