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Patient refuses to ask for help with anything. Has carried a couch up three flights of stairs alone. Has moved apartments alone. Has been sick alone. Is, currently, drowning at work and will not tell their manager. 'I got it' has been said 411 times this year. Patient, at some point, will not, in fact, have it.
Chronic. Asking for help feels like admitting weakness.
None. The couch, in retrospect, needed two people.
Patients with Terminal Hyperindependence Collapse typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Hyperindependence Collapse 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 Autarchia emotionalis totalis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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