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Patient has scheduled a family holiday photo shoot in October for a December card. Has coordinated outfits three times. Has changed the color palette twice. The 4-year-old has had a meltdown during the preview shots. The 7-year-old has refused to smile. Patient is considering Photoshopping on the child from 2022.
Annual. Starts earlier each year.
None. The Minted deadline is in three weeks.
Patients with Severe Holiday Photo Card Perfectionism typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Holiday Photo Card Perfectionism 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 Imago festiva obsessiva perfecta, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.