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Patient has, for two weeks, deliberately avoided all news. Has, in the same two weeks, checked their phone 87 times per day and seen fragments of the news anyway. Now knows, partially, about three things they did not want to know about. Has not, however, confirmed any of them. Lives in a state of semi-informed dread. Decides each morning not to look. Looks.
Chronic. The avoidance is, itself, the engagement.
None. Committing to either full awareness or full unplug would, apparently, be easier than this.
Patients with Terminal News-Avoidance Cycle typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal News-Avoidance Cycle is a terminal behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Fuga notitiarum ambiguus — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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