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Patient owns 41 tote bags. Has an entire hook, drawer, or specific closet corner dedicated to the collection. The bags have arrived free from bookstores, conferences, podcast merch, and Trader Joe's runs. Patient does not like most of them. Patient cannot bring themselves to throw any of them away. When leaving the house, reaches, somehow, for a 42nd tote currently en route from an online purchase.
Chronic. The collection expands faster than consumption.
None. Free is, apparently, still too expensive to refuse.
Patients with Severe Tote-Bag Accumulation Compulsion typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Tote-Bag Accumulation Compulsion 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 Sacculus cumulatus superfluus, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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