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Patient's 3-year-old was fully potty trained for six weeks and has now, without warning, had three accidents in 48 hours. Patient has googled 'potty training regression' at 1 AM. Has joined a Facebook group. Is now questioning whether they started too early, too late, or incorrectly. The child is fine. The carpet is less so.
Chronic. The panic returns at every accident.
None. The carpet cleaner has been purchased.
Patients with Chronic Potty-Training Regression Panic typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Potty-Training Regression Panic is a chronic behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Recursio pottus horror — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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