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Patient believes their car, while stopped at a red light, is a private space. It is not. A bus queue of eleven people has established direct visual confirmation. Patient establishes eye contact, does not stop, and waves. The waving hand is the excavation hand.
Permanent. Eye contact does not halt the process.
None. Patient may, during a wave, continue.
Patients with Catastrophic Public Nose Excavation typically present with some or all of the following:
Catastrophic Public Nose Excavation is a catastrophic behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Investigatio nasalis publica — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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