Patient cannot be on camera without performing a face. Even a Zoom call requires the face. The face has become the face. The resting face is lost.
Permanent. Mirrors now feel like a stage.
None. Video calls are preceded by 6 minutes of warm-up.
Patients with Chronic Micro-Expression Performance Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Micro-Expression Performance 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 Cameraface perpetualis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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