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Patient insists on taking 'their shortcut' to the airport. The shortcut involves three unprotected left turns, a school zone, and a brief stretch on a gravel road. Has, in fact, added 11 minutes to the trip. Will, when asked, say 'yeah but it avoids the traffic.' It does not avoid the traffic.
Chronic. Each shortcut is worse than the last.
None. GPS has been overruled.
Patients with Severe 'Knows A Shortcut' Delusion typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe 'Knows A Shortcut' Delusion is a severe 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 Fides in viam brevem inventa — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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