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Patient placed a pot in the sink 'to soak' at approximately 8 PM Tuesday. It is now Friday morning. The water is gray. There is a faint smell. The pot is still in the sink. Patient continues to walk past the sink and register the pot without engaging. Each passing hour makes engagement psychologically harder. The soak was never a strategy; it was a deferral.
Chronic. The soak duration has, on occasion, exceeded 72 hours.
None. The soak only ends when the kitchen is needed for an actual purpose.
Patients with Severe Soaking Delusion typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Severe Soaking Delusion present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Submersio vasorum procrastinativa, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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