Patient is paying $49/month to be in a Skool community run by a 22-year-old who has, patient has discovered, been an entrepreneur for seven months. The community has a Discord with 340 members posting 'first $5K month!' screenshots that, in the small print of the Zoom reveal call, patient will learn are from the course sales themselves. Patient has attended three live Zoom calls. The guru did not make eye contact with the camera. The subscription has auto-renewed 11 times.
Chronic. The next community is, apparently, the one with 'real' members.
None. The auto-renewal has been noted and not stopped.
Patients with Pathological Skool-Community Subscriber typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Skool-Community Subscriber 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 Communitas digitalis hebdomadalis — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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