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Compulsive Alarm-Snooze Addiction

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COMPULSIVE
Diagnosis
Compulsive Alarm-Snooze Addiction
Negotiatus matinalis eternus
Clinical description

Patient negotiates with their alarm in 9-minute increments for a total of 84 minutes daily. Has been late to every meeting for 3 years. Is considering setting it earlier.

Prognosis

Will not set it earlier.

Recommended treatment

None. Putting the phone across the room produced a single good week in 2022.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Compulsive Alarm-Snooze Addiction typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Compulsive Alarm-Snooze Addiction 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 Negotiatus matinalis eternus, 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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