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Severe 'Where Are We Going?' Insistence Disorder

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SEVERE
Diagnosis
Severe 'Where Are We Going?' Insistence Disorder
Trajectoria relationalis interrogatio
Clinical description

Patient's partner has asked 'where is this going?' during dinner, in the car, and once at a funeral. No answer has been accepted. Each answer generates a follow-up question of increased specificity.

Prognosis

Terminal. The destination is the question itself.

Recommended treatment

There is no correct answer. Honesty escalates. Vague answers escalate. Silence escalates.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Severe 'Where Are We Going?' Insistence Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Severe 'Where Are We Going?' Insistence 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 Trajectoria relationalis interrogatio, 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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