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Patient has approximately $340 of items currently sitting in a SHEIN cart. Also $190 on Amazon. Also an unknown amount at ASOS. The carts are, functionally, shrines. Patient adds to them nightly, reviews them during lunch, removes items, re-adds them, and — critically — does not check out. The intent-to-purchase is the hobby. The purchase is not the point.
Chronic. Cart size expands faster than any actual spending occurs.
None. Checking out would resolve the ritual.
Patients with Pathological Phantom-Cart Accumulation typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Phantom-Cart Accumulation 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 Carrus digitalis infinitus non-emptus — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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