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Pathological Sittervising Guilt

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PATHOLOGICAL
Diagnosis
Pathological Sittervising Guilt
Custodia somnolenta culpa
Clinical description

Patient is 'sittervising' their 2-year-old from the couch while scrolling Instagram. The child has, in the last 4 minutes, unrolled the toilet paper, eaten a dry noodle off the floor, and identified an outlet. Patient notices each incident approximately 11 seconds after it occurs. Guilt arrives on a delay.

Prognosis

Chronic. Deteriorates on weekends with no outside adults.

Recommended treatment

None. The Instagram reel was, apparently, important.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Pathological Sittervising Guilt typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Pathological Sittervising Guilt was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.

The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Custodia somnolenta culpa β€” fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.

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