Experiential Avoidance

Dimension 205 of 1,100 · Health Lens

Excitement Index

0.0685

Experiential Avoidance measures the tendency to distance oneself from distressing thoughts, feelings, memories, or reminders through suppression, distraction, denial, emotional numbing, or situational avoidance. It encompasses both internal efforts to push away unwanted experience and behavioral efforts to stay away from triggering cues.

evidence final name · Avoid Tried

Bands

Minimal Experiential Avoidance

Expressions activating this band show little clear evidence of deliberate distancing from distressing internal experience or reminders. Content is sparse, incidental, or only weakly related to avoidance.

Mild Experiential Avoidance

Expressions activating this band show selective withdrawal from upsetting feelings, reminders, or discussions, often through emotional isolation, numbing, or avoiding particular activities. Avoidance is present but situational and not strongly effortful.

Moderate Experiential Avoidance

Expressions activating this band show active attempts to keep distress out of awareness by distracting oneself, minimizing its importance, blocking thoughts, or avoiding encounters and reminders. The expression presents avoidance as a deliberate coping response.

High Experiential Avoidance

Expressions activating this band show sustained effort to suppress thoughts and feelings, refuse reminders, and mentally reframe or dismiss distress in order to stay emotionally unaffected. Avoidance is intentional, recurrent, and directed at both inner experience and external cues.

Severe Experiential Avoidance

Expressions activating this band show strong, persistent efforts to push distress out of mind, act as if it is not happening, or prevent any emotional activation when reminded of it. Avoidance is pervasive and includes suppression, pretense, joking, and going out of one's way to remove reminders.

Evidence summary

Candidate names

Avoid Tried1.00

Avoided0.50

Believe0.50

Sentence counts by range

B-5..B-4645

B-3..B24,900,239

B3..B980,804

B10..B11106

B12..B1849

Dataset representation

01__health_reviews__druglib__benefits_effectiveness48

03__fact_checking__liar__truth_ordinal56

05__whole_disney_dataset__rating76

06__text_reviews__acl_imdb__binary_sentiment127

07__emotion_labels__goemotions_reddit__multilabel110

08__dialogue_emotion__empathetic_dialogues__context120

10__social_media_sentiment__sentiment140__binary101

11__consumer_complaints__response_explanation_vs_relief127

Anchor definitions

Minimal Avoid Tried

Minimal Avoid Tried: Content characterized by bill, vehicles, property, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect avoid tried at this level.

Emerging Avoid Tried

Emerging Avoid Tried: Content characterized by avoid, avoided, activities, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect avoid tried at this level.

Elevated Avoid Tried

Elevated Avoid Tried: Content characterized by want, believe, visited, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect avoid tried at this level.

Severe Avoid Tried

Severe Avoid Tried: Content characterized by forget, denied, dismissed, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect avoid tried at this level.