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Acute Pet-Insurance Guilt Loop

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ACUTE
Diagnosis
Acute Pet-Insurance Guilt Loop
Culpa assecurationis animalis
Clinical description

Patient's dog Biscuit has, in his life, needed one vet visit that would have been covered by the insurance patient cancelled in 2022. Patient has calculated the exact amount they would have saved. Has researched reinstating. Has not reinstated. Will bring this up in therapy again next Thursday.

Prognosis

Chronic. Guilt activates on every vet bill.

Recommended treatment

Untreatable. Reinstatement has been 'on the list' for 18 months.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Acute Pet-Insurance Guilt Loop typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Patients diagnosed with Acute Pet-Insurance Guilt Loop present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.

The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Culpa assecurationis animalis, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.

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