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Parent knows exactly what every cousin, neighbor's child, and old school friend is doing this year. Their salaries. Their square footage. Their grandchildren.
Irreversible. Holiday dinners weaponized.
None. Moving abroad has no effect.
Patients with Chronic Comparison-Parent Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Comparison-Parent 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 Matercus comparativus cruentus, 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.