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Patient has six unopened 40-pound bags of the same dog food in the garage from Chewy autoship. Has been meaning to cancel since February. Each month, a new bag arrives before they remember. The dog, Marley, is a 14-pound dachshund. This is, conservatively, eleven years of food.
Chronic. Autoship is, apparently, a life partner.
Untreatable. The 'pause' button has been clicked, then unclicked, four times.
Patients with Pathological Chewy Autoship Hoarding typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Chewy Autoship Hoarding 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 Subscriptio animalis accumulata — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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