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Patient lost a close match, threw the controller (not hard enough to break it; a lifetime of practice), declared out loud that they are done with this game forever, and left the room. Is now, four minutes later, sitting back at the console loading another match. This has happened four times tonight. The declaration gets shorter each time. By match nine it will be, simply, 'one more.'
Chronic. The four-minute return window has shortened each year.
None. The controller, meanwhile, has never actually broken.
Patients with Terminal Rage-Quit-Return Cycle typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Terminal Rage-Quit-Return Cycle — a terminal condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Ira ludica recursus. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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