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Patient and their partner agreed to watch the new season together. Last night, patient came home from work to find their partner pretending to watch a cooking show. The cooking show was paused. Netflix, helpfully, showed the last episode watched: two ahead of where they left off together. Patient said nothing. Patient knows. Tomorrow, watching together, patient will notice every fake reaction.
Chronic. Confirmed by episode-progress metadata.
None. The partner's surprised face at plot twists will now never fool patient again.
Patients with Severe Netflix Cheating Betrayal typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Netflix Cheating Betrayal 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 Spectaculum solitarium infidelis, 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.