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Patient is, by every reasonable measure, doing the job. Fed the kids. Got them to school. Packed snacks. Kissed foreheads. At 11:47 PM, in a dark bedroom, patient is Googling 'am I a bad mom' on a phone held six inches from their face. Has Googled this phrase 94 times. Every search returns reassurance. No search has been believed. The question reformulates itself hourly: 'am I doing enough,' 'am I messing them up,' 'will they remember this,' 'is this the thing that damages them.'
Chronic. The search will be run again tonight.
None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.
Patients with Chronic Am-I-A-Good-Mom Spiral typically present with some or all of the following:
This is the Institute's entry for Chronic Am-I-A-Good-Mom Spiral — a chronic condition cataloged for archival purposes and shared for patient use. No prescription exists. No intervention has been shown effective. Recognition is the primary benefit of diagnosis.
Formal name: Dubium maternale nocturnum. Not found in the DSM-5 or ICD-11. Found, routinely, in the patient population.
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