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Patient has visited their ex's Instagram grid, stories, tagged photos, and liked posts every night for 9 months. Knows their new partner's job. Has zoomed in on a watch.
Permanent. Private accounts only deepen it.
None. A finsta is already in place.
Patients with Terminal Ex-Archaeology Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Ex-Archaeology 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 Historia amoris excavatio nocturna, 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.