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Patient looked at their life today and asked, out loud, whether they are even trying. Has compared themselves to friends, colleagues, internet strangers. Has concluded they are not. Has ignored the 47 small things they did today — including going to work, making dinner, returning a call they didn't want to return — because none of those felt like trying. Trying, in patient's private dictionary, is reserved for things that happen to other people.
Chronic. Effort patient puts in is invisible to patient.
None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.
Patients with Terminal Am-I-Even-Trying Pattern typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Am-I-Even-Trying Pattern 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 Dubium effortus sui, 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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