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Terminal Walking-Disaster Magnet

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Diagnosis
Terminal Walking-Disaster Magnet
Attractio catastrophicus persona
Clinical description

No matter which city, app, or bar, patient emerges with the single most chaotic person in the room. This has been tested. The experiment has been repeated.

Prognosis

Replicable. Statistically anomalous.

Recommended treatment

None. The magnet cannot be turned off.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Terminal Walking-Disaster Magnet typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Terminal Walking-Disaster Magnet 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 Attractio catastrophicus persona, 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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