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Chronic Career-Critic Parent Syndrome

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CHRONIC
Diagnosis
Chronic Career-Critic Parent Syndrome
Laborem parentalis suspectus
Clinical description

Every job patient has held has been described by parent as 'not a real job.' Includes: lawyer, surgeon, and, most recently, astronaut.

Prognosis

Permanent. Next promotion will also be 'not a real job.'

Recommended treatment

None. Success is moved one rung higher each year.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Chronic Career-Critic Parent Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Chronic Career-Critic Parent Syndrome was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.

The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Laborem parentalis suspectus β€” fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.

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