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Patient's garage contains: a lawnmower that has not run since 2018, a motorcycle awaiting a specific part, a bicycle with one wheel, a project desk half-sanded, and a kayak purchased with great intention. Patient intends to finish all of these projects. The intention has been stable for six years. The parts have not been ordered. The tools have been organized three times.
Chronic. New projects arrive before old ones are completed.
None. The garage is, apparently, a museum of future weekends.
Patients with Pathological Garage-Project Stasis typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Garage-Project Stasis 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 Opus intermissum aeternum, 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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