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Patient owns approximately 200 articles of clothing. Is standing in a towel in front of a packed closet and has, out loud, said 'I have nothing to wear.' Has said this sentence roughly 1,400 times in their life. Has worn the same six items in rotation for 11 months. The other 194 items watch silently. Patient is now considering online shopping as the solution.
Chronic. Each new purchase worsens the decision space.
None. The paradox is mathematical; more options compound the paralysis.
Patients with Chronic Closet Paradox Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Closet Paradox Disorder 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 Plenitudo vestiarii inanis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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