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Patient requires verbal acknowledgement for loading the dishwasher, replying to an email, and remembering their own keys. Silence is interpreted as criticism.
Worsens with age.
None. An unthanked task may not be repeated.
Patients with Chronic Minor-Praise Dependence typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Minor-Praise Dependence 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 Approbatio microscopica necessaria, 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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