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Patient has rewatched the same nine-season sitcom, in its entirety, four times. Does not watch new content. Does not want to. Puts the rewatch on at breakfast, at lunch, during cleaning, falling asleep. Knows every line. Has gone, in the last 18 months, through approximately 340 hours of rewatch material. When asked for a recommendation, says 'oh, I mostly just have this one thing on.' The thing on is, at this point, the room.
Chronic. The rewatch count rises annually.
None. New content, patient explains, 'is too much to commit to right now.'
Patients with Severe Single-Show Rewatch Dependency typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Severe Single-Show Rewatch Dependency — a severe condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Iteratio spectaculi singularis. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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