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Terminal Looksmaxxing Obsession

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Diagnosis
Terminal Looksmaxxing Obsession
Maxillus perfectus delusio
Clinical description

Patient has spent the last 14 months mewing, chewing hard gum, and measuring their own canthal tilt on a bathroom mirror. Jaw is not improving. Self-esteem is.

Prognosis

No amount of bone smashing will reverse genetics.

Recommended treatment

Incurable. Do not introduce patient to anyone taller.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Terminal Looksmaxxing Obsession typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Terminal Looksmaxxing Obsession 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 Maxillus perfectus delusio, 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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