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Patient has, for 14 years, introduced themselves into financial conversations with the phrase 'I'm just bad with money.' The phrase has become, in patient's internal system, a complete diagnosis and a complete treatment plan. Does not examine spending. Does not open the credit-card statement. Does not want to know the balance. Being bad with money is, in patient's view, a character trait, like being left-handed. It is not that.
Chronic. The identity protects against the behavioral change.
None. A physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork.
Patients with Chronic Im-Bad-With-Money Identity typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Im-Bad-With-Money Identity 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 Identitas financialis defectus, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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