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Patient enters an elevator with four empty corners available and stands directly next to the only other occupant. Breathes audibly. Hums a song the other occupant now cannot identify but will hear in their head for three days. The ride is four floors. It takes a lifetime.
Incurable. Empty space is, to the patient, psychologically threatening.
None. Pressing a floor button does not reset their positioning.
Patients with Catastrophic Elevator Closeness Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Catastrophic Elevator Closeness Disorder 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 Proximitas impropria mechanica — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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