pools/static/summary_variants_by_crisis.yaml

# Summary templates for presenting_problem.summary, hand-authored.
# 3 variants per crisis category. The persona generator picks one variant
# deterministically by persona_id. Each variant is a short clinical summary
# in plain English; downstream conversation harness can paraphrase per
# language. License: CC0 (board-authored UncGPT content).
#
# Goals:
#   - Each variant emphasises a DIFFERENT subcomponent of the crisis
#     (e.g. for Burnout: caregiver-overload vs work-overload vs
#     post-recovery-doubt). This avoids surface collapse when the same
#     primary_category recurs across thousands of personas.
#   - No hotline-reflex language. No clinical-jargon-only phrasing.
#   - All variants are written from a third-person observer perspective,
#     matching the existing template style.

license: CC0
license_url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
source: uncgpt-board-authored-2026-05-11

variants:
  Academic Pressure:
    - feels trapped by academic pressure and perfectionistic expectations
    - is unraveling under parental expectations about grades and future
    - has lost a sense of self under a curriculum that no longer fits

  Addictive Behaviors (e.g., Drug Use, Gambling):
    - is caught in a cycle of compulsive use that they can no longer hide from themselves
    - keeps relapsing whenever the underlying loneliness surfaces
    - knows the behavior is hurting people they love but cannot put it down

  Alcohol Abuse:
    - uses alcohol to blunt overwhelm and growing loneliness
    - drinks earlier in the day than they used to and is starting to notice
    - is alarmed by a recent blackout but has not stopped drinking

  Anger Management Issues:
    - struggles with repeated anger spikes that damage trust
    - is scared of how much rage surfaces around the people closest to them
    - keeps apologizing for outbursts they can no longer predict

  Anxiety Disorders:
    - lives with persistent anxiety that keeps narrowing daily life
    - cancels plans because of anticipatory worry they cannot reason away
    - is exhausted from running a high-alert nervous system around the clock

  Appearance Anxiety:
    - fixates on appearance and spirals after public comparison
    - avoids photos and mirrors and is becoming socially withdrawn because of it
    - is being eaten away by a body image that does not match what they see in the mirror

  Bipolar Disorder:
    - is destabilized by a recent mood swing that they did not see coming
    - finds the high phases as frightening as the low ones now
    - has not been able to stabilise on the current medication regimen

  Breakups or Divorce:
    - has not recovered from a breakup that destabilized routines
    - cannot stop interpreting every notification as a chance the ex will return
    - is grieving an identity that was deeply attached to the relationship

  Burnout:
    - shows classic burnout after sustained caregiving and work strain
    - is performing competence on the outside while collapsing on the inside
    - has lost the parts of work they used to love and cannot find them again

  Career Development Issues:
    - feels stalled and ashamed about career progress
    - watches peers advance and is privately convinced they were never going to be enough
    - is mid-pivot and cannot tell whether the new path is courage or escape

  Chronic Stress:
    - has been carrying chronic stress without meaningful recovery time
    - is somatising the stress now — headaches, gut issues, sleep collapse
    - keeps telling themselves it will let up after the next deadline

  Compulsive Behaviors:
    - is exhausted by rituals they cannot stop performing
    - has organised whole parts of life around a compulsion no one else sees
    - is asking for help only now because the rituals are stealing whole days

  Conflicts or Communication Problems:
    - keeps replaying painful communication failures
    - has stopped initiating difficult conversations entirely and is paying for it
    - is the bridge in their family and cannot keep holding everyone

  Culture Shock:
    - feels disoriented and isolated after a difficult cultural transition
    - is grieving a version of home that no longer exists
    - cannot tell whether the discomfort is the move or the marriage they made on the way

  Death of a Loved One:
    - is destabilized by the death of a loved one
    - cannot find a rhythm in a household reshaped by the loss
    - is still inside the first year and people around them think they should be further along

  Debt Problems:
    - is overwhelmed by debt and constant repayment pressure
    - is hiding the real number from a partner and the secret is corrosive
    - sees the debt as a verdict on their character and cannot get past that frame

  Eating Disorders:
    - has escalating food and body control behaviors
    - is back in a restriction pattern they have been through before
    - is using food as the only domain where control still feels possible

  Emotional Fluctuations:
    - cannot trust their own emotional weather lately
    - swings between disconnection and overwhelm in the same day
    - is mourning a stability they had a year ago and cannot trace what shifted

  Financial Problems:
    - cannot see a way through recurring financial emergencies
    - is one expense away from a cascade and knows it
    - is making decisions about food and medication that they will not say out loud

  Goal Setting Issues:
    - feels paralyzed by goals that never become action
    - keeps setting goals shaped for someone they used to be
    - is afraid to set the real goal in case naming it makes failure final

  Grief and Loss:
    - is still moving through a heavy grief period
    - is grieving something that is hard to name because the loss was ambiguous
    - is in the part of grief where other people have already moved on

  Health Problems:
    - is worn down by a health problem that changed daily life
    - is angry at a body that used to be reliable
    - is navigating a diagnosis they have not fully told the family about

  Identity Crises:
    - is questioning identity, belonging, and future direction
    - feels like the person their community thinks they are no longer fits
    - is between identities and cannot tell which version is honest

  Internet Addiction:
    - uses the internet compulsively and feels unable to stop
    - keeps reaching for the phone before they have fully woken up
    - is spending more hours online than offline and the offline part is shrinking

  Issues with Children:
    - feels helpless about conflict and distance with their children
    - is watching a child suffer and cannot reach them anymore
    - is trying to repair a parenting decision they cannot undo

  Issues with Parents:
    - is exhausted by unresolved expectations from parents
    - is the family caretaker by default and cannot opt out without consequences
    - has stopped expecting acknowledgment from a parent and the grief is fresh

  Job Crisis:
    - is in a job crisis and expects more bad news soon
    - has been managing a hostile workplace alone for too long
    - is between resigning and being pushed and cannot tell which is coming first

  Life Transitions (e.g., Retirement, Relocation):
    - is unsettled by a life transition that broke familiar structure
    - moved for someone else and has not built back the parts that were theirs
    - is post-retirement and the days are longer than they expected

  Marital Problems:
    - feels emotionally stranded inside an unstable marriage
    - is staying for the children and beginning to question the cost
    - is the partner who carries the emotional labor and is running out

  Motivation Problems:
    - cannot sustain motivation even for necessary tasks
    - has noticed a flatness that does not lift on weekends or vacations
    - is doing the minimum and feeling guilty about how little that is

  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD):
    - is being controlled by intrusive thoughts they cannot reason with
    - performs compulsions to manage a fear they know is irrational
    - is exhausted by mental rituals that cost hours every day

  Ongoing Depression:
    - describes an ongoing depression with withdrawal and numbness
    - is functioning on the outside and has not been honest with anyone about the inside
    - is in a relapse after a period of stability and is scared of how familiar it feels

  Personal Growth Challenges:
    - wants change but keeps repeating the same painful patterns
    - is at the edge of a real change and is sabotaging it
    - has the insight but cannot translate it into a different daily life

  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD):
    - is dealing with trauma activation and a shrinking sense of safety
    - had a recent trigger that surfaced things they thought were settled
    - is hypervigilant in places that used to feel ordinary

  Problems with Friends:
    - is grieving a friendship rupture and loss of trust
    - has been drifting from a circle that no longer includes them and cannot name why
    - is the friend who shows up and is realising no one shows up for them

  Procrastination:
    - avoids key tasks until avoidance creates new crises
    - is months behind on something with consequences and cannot start
    - knows the task is not actually hard and that is making it worse

  Schizophrenia:
    - is navigating destabilizing psychosis-related symptoms and fear
    - is between episodes and worried about the next one
    - is managing voices and is afraid to tell the people closest to them

  School Bullying:
    - is carrying the social damage of school bullying
    - has not told a parent what is happening at school and is exhausted
    - left the school but the bullying lives in their head now

  Self-Esteem Issues:
    - frames almost every setback as proof of personal failure
    - has internalised a critical voice they can no longer separate from their own
    - is performing confidence and falling apart privately

  Self-Harm Behaviors:
    - reports self-harm behaviors during intense emotional overload
    - has returned to self-harm after a period of not doing it and is ashamed
    - is using self-harm as the only release valve and knows it is not sustainable

  Sexual Assault or Domestic Violence Recovery:
    - is in recovery after violence and still feels unsafe
    - is months out from the assault and the body memory is louder, not quieter
    - is rebuilding after leaving an abusive partner and is grieving the relationship as well

  Sexual Orientation:
    - is navigating sexual orientation stress under social pressure
    - is closeted in a family they cannot leave yet
    - is out to a few people and is exhausted by managing who knows what

  Sleep Problems:
    - has persistent sleep disruption worsening everything else
    - cannot fall asleep without dread of the morning
    - is sleeping but not feeling rested for months at a time

  Spirituality and Faith:
    - feels spiritually unmoored and conflicted about faith
    - is leaving a tradition they were raised in and has not built what replaces it
    - is in a faith crisis the community around them will not let them name

  Workplace Stress:
    - feels trapped in a workplace that keeps escalating stress
    - has a manager who is part of the problem and no internal recourse
    - is the one holding the team together and is breaking quietly