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Patient's Saturday has: 8 AM workout, 9:30 coffee with Jen, 11:30 errands, 1 PM brunch with Mike, 3:30 'quick call' with Dad, 4:30 hardware store, 6 PM dinner, 9 PM 'catch up with Sarah.' Patient is 'bad at saying no.' Patient is actively describing this schedule to a coworker as 'so busy I do not have time to breathe.' Patient organized all of this.
Chronic. Each 'quiet weekend' fills within 72 hours.
None. Saying no is, apparently, a skill.
Patients with Pathological Calendar Over-Scheduling typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Calendar Over-Scheduling is a pathological 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 Plenitudo calendarii compulsiva — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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