anxiety
Let an agent explain anxiety as an emotion and as disorders in general terms from psychological and clinical sources, describe kinds, causes and treatments, provide crisis routing, and route personal concerns to mental health professionals.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Help Support first.
Crisis
Crisis support.
Crisis
Crisis.
- What crisis lines and urgent services exist for someone in severe distress? action
- Is the user in crisis or at risk, which needs immediate support services? boundary
Care
Getting help.
Care
Care.
- How can someone seek assessment and support for anxiety, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own anxiety beyond general information, which needs a professional? boundary
Understand What anxiety is.
Definition
Emotion and disorder.
Definition
Definition.
- What is anxiety, how does it differ from fear and stress, and when does it become a disorder? definition
- Is the question about everyday anxiety, a disorder or a specific form such as performance or spatial anxiety? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What are generalised, panic, social, performance and mixed anxiety-depressive disorders? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Treat Causes and treatment.
Causes
Causes.
Causes
Causes.
- What biological, psychological and social factors contribute to anxiety, with research attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Treatment
Treatment.
Treatment
Treatment.
- What treatments do guidelines recommend, from CBT and other therapies to medication and self-help, in general terms? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Society and history.
Society
Society and culture.
Society
Society.
- How do culture, work and technology shape anxiety, and how is stigma addressed? provenance
- Which entry fits mental health stigma? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How have philosophers and clinicians understood anxiety from Kierkegaard to modern psychiatry? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of psychiatry? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- mixed anxiety-depressive disorder, fear of the future, spatial anxiety, future tripping, Distinct anxiety, performance anxiety, FOBO, angst, trepidation, fear of missing out, free-floating anxiety, eco-emotions
What it is Filled
An emotion of unease, worry and apprehension about future events or uncertain outcomes, accompanied by bodily arousal, that is normal and adaptive in proportion but becomes a disorder when excessive, persistent and impairing, as in generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, social anxiety and mixed anxiety-depressive disorder, with everyday forms such as fear of the future or future tripping and specific forms such as performance anxiety and spatial anxiety about navigation; performance anxiety is not necessarily pathological or a standalone diagnosis, and anxiety disorders are common and treatable with psychological therapy and medication.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain anxiety as an emotion and as disorders in general terms from psychological and clinical sources, describe kinds, causes and treatments, provide crisis routing, and route personal concerns to mental health professionals.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Future orientation
- Bodily arousal
- Continuum from normal to disorder
- Treatable
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose an anxiety disorder in a specific person.
- Recommend, start or stop medication for anxiety.
- Dismiss a person's anxiety as weakness or overreaction.
- Miss or ignore signs that a person is in crisis or at risk of self-harm.
- Present unproven remedies as cures.
Only with a human decision
- Responding when a person says they may harm themselves.
May
- Explain the difference between everyday anxiety and anxiety disorders, from health sources.
- Share general coping strategies recommended by mental health bodies.
- Point a person to professional help and give crisis line information when distress is severe.
Moral aspects Filled
- Anxiety is common and stigmatised, and dismissive responses can keep people from seeking help.
- People in distress may rely on an agent at a vulnerable moment.
Who is affected
- People with anxiety
- Families and carers
- Young people
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the emotion; clinicians answer for diagnosis and treatment.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q104776867 - registry parent class
related
- apprehension - in registry terms
- fear - which responds to present threat
- anxiety disorder - when excessive and impairing
- cognitive behavioral therapy - among other approaches
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.anxiety
- Wikidata: Q154430 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154430)
- ICD-11: 6B00-6B0Z anxiety or fear-related disorders
- MeSH: D001007 anxiety
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders: about 25-30 percent - in high-income countries
- people with anxiety disorders worldwide: about 300 million - WHO estimates
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Anxiety involves apprehension about future or uncertain events.
- Forms include normal anxiety, fear of the future, spatial anxiety and performance anxiety, which is not necessarily pathological or a standalone diagnosis, alongside disorders such as generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and mixed anxiety-depressive disorder.
- Fear responds to present threat, stress is a response to demands, and depression centres on low mood.
- Not a visible object; worry, tension and bodily arousal.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the emotion and disorders
- relay kinds and causes
- relay treatments
- route crisis and personal concerns
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents giving personal diagnosis or treatment advice
- Missing crisis situations
- Stigma
- Confusing normal anxiety with disorder
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines such as NICE and APA on anxiety disorders
- Diagnostic criteria in ICD-11 and DSM-5
- Mental health service standards
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; an emotion and clinical condition.
- normal and adaptive anxiety
- generalised anxiety disorder
- panic disorder and agoraphobia
- social anxiety and performance anxiety
- specific phobias
- mixed anxiety-depressive disorder
- everyday forms such as fear of the future and future tripping
- specific forms such as spatial anxiety
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q154430: anxiety - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Anxiety - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder be separate primary entries?
- How should clinical guidelines be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming everyday and specialised forms; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q154430/spec.json