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Actio Ante Fugam

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Rx #90,573 Self-Image & Ego
Prescribed
Actio Ante Fugam
(Action Before Escape, one step)
DosageOne (1) specific action toward improving the patient's actual current life, taken before any further research into the Norwegian cabin is permitted
FrequencyDaily
DurationLifelong practice
RefillsUnlimited — the cabin will, apparently, still be on Pinterest when the actual life is manageable
Side effects May include the specific grief of an escape-fantasy deprived of oxygen, the phantom urge to 'just look at the cabin listings for five minutes,' and — by week two — the observation that the Norwegian cabin fantasy had been functioning as a substitute for making the current apartment habitable rather than as a genuine life plan.
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What is this?

Actio Ante Fugam is part of the Institute Pharmacy's formulary of satirical prescriptions. Everything on this slip is fictional except the behavior it addresses. A real pharmacist, handed this slip, would decline to fill it. Patients are invited to fill it themselves.

Patients know it in practice as Action Before Escape, one step — the Latin is ceremonial; the English form is what they actually execute.

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