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Patient bought a coin at $4.14. The coin is now at $0.09. The coin will, patient insists, come back. Has held for 14 months. Has refused three separate exit points at which the loss would have been merely catastrophic rather than total. Has, in the private part of their brain, named this condition 'diamond hands.' The community uses a different term: bag holder. Patient has not adopted it.
Chronic. The coin's utility narrative grows with each price drop.
None. Selling now would, apparently, confirm patient was wrong.
Patients with Terminal Bag-Holder Denial Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Bag-Holder Denial Syndrome 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 Sacculus perdurans irreversibile, 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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