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Patient communicates displeasure through the precise amount of air moved when placing a cup down. A three-day silence is, somehow, louder than an argument.
Will be broken by a single word at the worst possible moment.
None. Direct conversation is considered escalation.
Patients with Severe Weaponized-Silence Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Weaponized-Silence Disorder 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 Silentium offensiva coniugalis, 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.