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Patient has checked the time seven times in the last 90 seconds. Has looked at: the phone, the microwave clock, the watch, and — once — their laptop. Each source confirmed it is 2:47 PM. Nothing has changed. Patient will check again in approximately 14 seconds. They are not waiting for anything specifically. The looking is the behavior.
Chronic. Time-checking frequency exceeds 40 times per day.
None. Removing the watch only increases phone-checking.
Patients with Severe Check-The-Time Compulsion typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Check-The-Time Compulsion is a severe 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 Temporis observatio repetitiva — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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