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Patient has a chest freezer in the garage. They get in it. They have told everyone. They will tell you. Benefits: measured in social posts.
Permanent. Winter is now year-round.
None. The ice bath is an identity.
Patients with Chronic Cold-Plunge Evangelism typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Cold-Plunge Evangelism 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 Frigus bapticus proselytica — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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