Patient owns 127 online courses. Has completed 0.4 of them. Intends to 'get into it this weekend' — a weekend that does not exist on any known calendar.
Will purchase one more during this diagnosis.
Untreatable. Refund windows are missed intentionally.
Patients with Pathological Course-Purchasing Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Course-Purchasing Disorder 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 Udemy infernalis incomplete, 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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