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Patient posted an Instagram story at 6:47 PM. Has refreshed the view list 94 times in 40 minutes. Is not checking how many people viewed it. Is checking whether one specific person viewed it. That specific person has not. Has viewed everyone else's story from today, including strangers'. Patient is taking this personally. It is personal.
Chronic. Activates within 90 seconds of any post.
None. Deleting the story and reposting has been considered.
Patients with Terminal Story-View Refresh Loop typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal Story-View Refresh Loop 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 Observatio visu imago publica — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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