Patient has, in theory, a full to-do list. In practice, patient is in bed at 2:47 PM wearing yesterday's T-shirt, watching a YouTube video about someone building a cabin in Norway. They do not want to build a cabin. They do not want to go to Norway. They cannot move.
Permanent. 'Motivation' is, apparently, a muscle they never developed.
None. Waiting for motivation is the core strategy and it is not working.
Patients with Terminal Norwegian-Cabin Fantasy Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Terminal Norwegian-Cabin Fantasy Disorder 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 Mos laboris absentia totalis, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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