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Patient has been in the 'talking stage' with someone for approximately seven months. They text daily. They FaceTime. They met the friends. The situationship-adjacent arrangement has, however, never been formally named. Neither party will bring it up. Patient is 'keeping it casual.' The casual is now longer than most actual relationships. A conversation looms. The conversation will continue to loom.
Chronic. Duration of talking stage has exceeded seven months.
None. Naming the relationship would, at this point, feel like an ambush.
Patients with Severe Talking-Stage Perpetuity typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Talking-Stage Perpetuity 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 Dialogium sine finem definitionis, 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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