Psychological Distress
Dimension 991 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Psychological Distress measures the extent to which an expression conveys emotional strain, worry, low mood, and a sense of being overwhelmed by difficulties. It encompasses restless tension, depressed feeling, sleep disruption from worry, and the experience of life as burdensome or hard to manage.
evidence final name · Constantly Constant
Minimal Psychological Distress
Expressions activating this band show little to no clear emotional strain, instead reflecting neutral, informational, or mixed content with only faint or incidental references to feeling states.
Moderate Psychological Distress
Expressions activating this band convey noticeable emotional burden, including feeling downhearted, restless, worried, keyed up, or weighed down by accumulating difficulties. Distress is present as a meaningful subjective state that disrupts ease, sleep, or coping.
High Psychological Distress
Expressions activating this band convey pervasive and sustained strain, with life experienced as constantly hard, overwhelming, nerve-racking, or difficult to bear. Distress appears as an ongoing state of nervous tension and emotional overload that dominates the expression.
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Low Constantly Constant: Content characterized by give, advisors, knowledge, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect constantly constant at this level.
Moderate Constantly Constant: Content characterized by under, repeatedly, filled, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect constantly constant at this level.
High Constantly Constant: Content characterized by constantly, constant, sores, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect constantly constant at this level.