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Patient has purchased four planners this year. And three journals. And a bullet journal with dotted pages. And two habit trackers. And a daily intention notebook. Each one was bought to bring order to the chaos. None of them has been written in past the first two pages. Pages one and two, in every single one, are filled with the same 14 aspirational goals. Patient is, currently, researching the next planner.
Chronic. Each purchase is framed as the breakthrough.
None. The next one, patient insists, will be different.
Patients with Severe Planner-Purchase Paradox typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Planner-Purchase Paradox 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 Liber ordinis permanens non-usus, 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.