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Patient, when speaking to a coworker, stands eighteen centimeters from their face. When the coworker steps back, the patient steps forward. A conversation with them is a slow waltz across the entire office, ending at a wall or a copier. Neither party acknowledges the dance.
Chronic. Ends only when a physical barrier is reached.
None. The waltz is the conversation.
Patients with Pathological Personal-Space Encroachment typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Personal-Space Encroachment 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 invasiva generalis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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