Patient has been recalled to the office. They have not recovered. The commute, the lighting, the shared mic in the meeting room. Mourning is ongoing.
Permanent. Will eulogize remote work for years.
None. Hybrid 'solutions' intensified the grief.
Patients with Severe Return-to-Office Grief typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Return-to-Office Grief 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 Luctus officalis reditus, 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.