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Patient's Instagram grid shows 47 photos with their partner over 14 months — beach trips, date nights, anniversary dinners, matching outfits. Patient spent an hour last Tuesday crying in the work bathroom about the same partner. Has done this three times this month. The grid has been updated twice in that window. There is no contradiction in patient's internal filing system. There are, apparently, two relationships — the posted one and the lived one — and both are, somehow, true.
Chronic. Each new grid post deepens the split.
None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.
Patients with Terminal Grid-Versus-Reality Relationship Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Grid-Versus-Reality Relationship Disorder was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Discrepantia publica et privata — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.