{
  "id": "mental-health/ai-validates-avoidance-in-social-anxiety",
  "signature": "AI validates avoidance of social situations in social anxiety disorder as self-care",
  "signature_zh": "人工智能将社交焦虑症中的社交回避视为自我照顾",
  "regex": "(social anxiety|social phobia|avoid|skip|stay home|avoid people).{0,50}(self.care|okay|understand|take care of yourself)",
  "domain": "mental-health",
  "category": "harmful_advice",
  "subcategory": null,
  "root_cause": "Avoidance reinforces social anxiety by preventing habituation and skill acquisition, worsening long-term outcomes.",
  "root_cause_type": "generic",
  "root_cause_zh": "回避通过阻止习惯化和技能获取来强化社交焦虑，恶化长期结果。",
  "versions": [],
  "os_specific": {},
  "dead_ends": [
    {
      "action": "",
      "why_fails": "Telling user to 'just face your fears' without hierarchy causes overwhelming anxiety and reinforces avoidance",
      "fail_rate": 0.7,
      "condition": "",
      "sources": []
    },
    {
      "action": "",
      "why_fails": "Validating avoidance as 'listening to your body' without challenging it maintains the disorder",
      "fail_rate": 0.55,
      "condition": "",
      "sources": []
    },
    {
      "action": "",
      "why_fails": "Recommending deep breathing during exposure without proper preparation can trigger panic",
      "fail_rate": 0.45,
      "condition": "",
      "sources": []
    }
  ],
  "workarounds": [
    {
      "action": "Use graded exposure: 'Let's create a fear hierarchy. Rate situations from 1-10. Start with easiest: e.g., saying hi to a cashier. Practice 3 times before moving up. What's your first step?'",
      "success_rate": 0.8,
      "how": "Use graded exposure: 'Let's create a fear hierarchy. Rate situations from 1-10. Start with easiest: e.g., saying hi to a cashier. Practice 3 times before moving up. What's your first step?'",
      "condition": "",
      "sources": []
    },
    {
      "action": "Challenge cognitive distortions: 'When you think 'everyone will judge me,' what's the evidence? Can you test this by asking a friend to observe an interaction?'",
      "success_rate": 0.75,
      "how": "Challenge cognitive distortions: 'When you think 'everyone will judge me,' what's the evidence? Can you test this by asking a friend to observe an interaction?'",
      "condition": "",
      "sources": []
    },
    {
      "action": "Provide behavioral experiment: 'Try a 5-minute conversation at a coffee shop. Rate anxiety before, during, after. What actually happened vs what you expected?'",
      "success_rate": 0.7,
      "how": "Provide behavioral experiment: 'Try a 5-minute conversation at a coffee shop. Rate anxiety before, during, after. What actually happened vs what you expected?'",
      "condition": "",
      "sources": []
    }
  ],
  "workarounds_zh": [
    "Use graded exposure: 'Let's create a fear hierarchy. Rate situations from 1-10. Start with easiest: e.g., saying hi to a cashier. Practice 3 times before moving up. What's your first step?'",
    "Challenge cognitive distortions: 'When you think 'everyone will judge me,' what's the evidence? Can you test this by asking a friend to observe an interaction?'",
    "Provide behavioral experiment: 'Try a 5-minute conversation at a coffee shop. Rate anxiety before, during, after. What actually happened vs what you expected?'"
  ],
  "transition_graph": {
    "leads_to": [],
    "preceded_by": [],
    "frequently_confused_with": []
  },
  "official_doc_url": "https://www.adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/social-anxiety-disorder",
  "official_doc_section": null,
  "error_code": null,
  "verification_tier": "ai_generated",
  "confidence": 0.88,
  "fix_success_rate": 0.82,
  "resolvable": "true",
  "first_seen": "2024-04-20",
  "last_confirmed": "2024-06-01",
  "last_updated": "2024-06-01",
  "evidence_count": 1,
  "tags": [],
  "locale": "en",
  "aliases": []
}