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Patient cannot eat food in the order it is served. Pizza is consumed crust-first on the last slice, middle-first on the rest. Chicken nuggets are sorted by size before the first is eaten. The fries and the burger must alternate in a specific pattern. If disrupted — by a dropped fry, by someone talking mid-bite — the meal is, functionally, ruined. Patient has, once, started over.
Chronic. Each meal is a private ritual.
None. The order is not negotiable.
Patients with Terminal Food-Eating-Order Compulsion typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Food-Eating-Order Compulsion 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 Ordo consumptionis rigida, 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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