DOMAIN:

Time / Embodiment

CORE MEANING:

The organism develops defensive resistance towards its own temporal progression.

CORE PATHOLOGY:

Temporal destabilisation. 

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SYMPTOMS:

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-Heightened surveillance of bodily changes

-Anxiety triggered by visible markers of ageing 

-Attempts to preserve or reconstruct earlier physical states 

-Increasing identification of self with external appearance

-Perception of time as hostile rather than neutral

PROGNOSIS:

Defensive preservation temporarily stabilises identity coherence, but progressively increases dependence on aesthetic mediation.

Over time, the subject becomes organised around resisting irreversible change.