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Patient has downloaded, in the last three years: Mint, YNAB, Copilot, Rocket Money, and Monarch. Each for approximately 14 days. Each abandoned once the app required patient to actually categorize a transaction. The apps remain installed. Their notifications have been disabled. A monthly $8.99 charge from YNAB has gone unchallenged for 22 months. The budget is, apparently, worse now than before the apps were installed.
Chronic. The next app will, patient believes, be different.
None. The subscription for the unused app has, in itself, become a line item.
Patients with Pathological Budget-App Graveyard typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Budget-App Graveyard 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 Applicatio financialis abandonata, 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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