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Patient has now declined four consecutive sign-up emails from the PTA. Is currently writing a reply to the fifth, explaining why they cannot bake 48 cupcakes by Thursday. The reply is in draft form. Has been in draft for six days. The PTA president has not stopped sending. Patient is not replying at this point out of pride.
Chronic. The PTA president has identified patient.
None. The email will not be sent.
Patients with Chronic PTA Volunteer Guilt typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic PTA Volunteer Guilt 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 Culpa vacationis scholasticae, 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.