Patient refuses to add anything to a calendar, on the grounds that seeing the commitment in advance makes it unbearable. Then misses it anyway.
Permanent. Will double-book themselves as a protest.
None. A planner has been gifted, and lost.
Patients with Chronic Calendar Avoidance Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Calendar Avoidance Disorder 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 Schedulum horribilis evasionis, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.