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Patient has been a regular at the gym for three years. Patient has touched a weight, in that time, zero times. The treadmill is home. The elliptical is home. The StairMaster is a spiritual retreat. Patient glances at the weights section, considers it, and then does 45 more minutes on the bike. A trainer has suggested strength training four times. Patient has nodded, agreed, and gone back to cardio.
Chronic. Bone density research has been received and ignored.
None. Lifting, apparently, is for other people.
Patients with Chronic Cardio-Only Avoidance Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Cardio-Only Avoidance Disorder is a chronic 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 Cursus solitarius sine robore — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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