Revised Clinical Overview: “Cave Syndrome” – A Non-Formalized Phenomenon of Post-Pandemic Social Reintegration Difficulty
Definition & Clinical Context “Cave syndrome” is not an officially recognized diagnostic entity in either the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) or the International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision (ICD-11). Rather, it is an informal, pop-psychology term describing a cluster of maladaptive behavioral, cognitive, and emotional symptoms observed…
