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Patient's flight is at 6 AM. Patient has left the house at 1:14 AM to drive 40 minutes to the airport. Has been white-knuckled for the entire drive. Has checked the dashboard clock 87 times. Arrives at the airport at 2 AM. TSA opens at 4 AM. The gate does not open for three hours.
Chronic. Each flight deepens the compulsion.
None. Airport sleeping in a chair has become routine.
Patients with Severe Pre-Flight Driving Panic typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Pre-Flight Driving Panic 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 pre-aereus cursus — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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