Avoidance
Dimension 977 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Avoidance measures the tendency to evade reminders, thoughts, feelings, situations, or interactions that are experienced as distressing, triggering, or otherwise difficult to face. It encompasses both internal avoidance of upsetting mental content and behavioral avoidance of external cues, activities, and encounters.
evidence final name · Avoid Avoiding
Minimal Avoidance
Expressions activating this band show little clear evidence of avoidance, with content that is diffuse, indirect, or only loosely related to evasion of distress. When avoidance is present, it appears as a minimal or incidental tendency to hold back or disengage.
Mild Avoidance
Expressions activating this band describe recognizable efforts to stay away from reminders, upsetting situations, or emotional activation. Avoidance appears as selective withdrawal from triggers, crowds, activities, or thoughts linked to stress or discomfort.
Moderate Avoidance
Expressions activating this band describe active management of distress through avoiding painful thoughts, feelings, social situations, or environmental triggers. Avoidance is used deliberately to prevent discomfort, hurt, or unwanted emotional reactions.
High Avoidance
Expressions activating this band describe sustained effort to avoid reminders, encounters, situations, and internal experiences that may provoke distress. Avoidance is experienced as a purposeful strategy requiring ongoing effort and vigilance.
Severe Avoidance
Expressions activating this band center on pervasive avoidance itself as a dominant mode of coping. Evasion of triggers, reminders, and difficult engagement is broad, explicit, and strongly foregrounded.
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Minimal Avoid Avoiding: Content characterized by transaction, merchant, amount, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect avoid avoiding at this level.
Emerging Avoid Avoiding: Content characterized by bad, avoid, avoided, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect avoid avoiding at this level.
Elevated Avoid Avoiding: Content characterized by avoid, avoided, thinking, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect avoid avoiding at this level.
Severe Avoid Avoiding: Content characterized by avoid, avoiding, encounter, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect avoid avoiding at this level.