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Patient owns a 2023 Model Y with a 330-mile range, is currently at 62% battery, and has started sweating because the nearest supercharger is 17 miles away. Has opened the PlugShare app eleven times in the last hour. Has googled 'what happens when Tesla runs out of battery.' The car is fine. Patient is not.
Chronic. Worsens below 40% charge.
None. Anxiety activates at ranges that would not concern a gas driver.
Patients with Advanced Range-Anxiety Spiral typically present with some or all of the following:
Advanced Range-Anxiety Spiral was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Anxietas distantiae electricae — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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