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Patient cannot enter a multi-level parking garage without developing full-body tension. Navigates the spiral ramps at 4 mph. Has clipped three mirrors in patient's life. The ticket machine at the exit causes a distinct panic. Prefers to park 11 blocks away in any major city rather than enter a garage.
Chronic. Worsens with garage height.
None. The walk from 11 blocks is, apparently, 'nice.'
Patients with Severe Parking-Garage Claustrophobia typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Parking-Garage Claustrophobia 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 Horror parcaginae tectae — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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