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Triggers, tested
not assumed

collected for you, compared with your own days

Most lists of anxiety triggers are rules written for everyone. AnxietyMe treats each one as a test for you. What a phone, a wearable or the weather can see is collected in the background and checked against your own normal; the situations only you know, a crowded train, an argument, a skipped lunch, you add in one tap. Then the app compares your attack days with your calm ones and says which, if any, matter for you. It never tells you to avoid anything.

why test, not assume?

A review of 20 studies on alcohol and panic found each can set off the other by separate routes: no single rule fits everyone.

Cosci et al., J Clin Psychiatry 2007

How a collected trigger fires

For each collected factor the app keeps a daily value, from your wearable, your phone, your food or the weather for your city. Once an hour it checks that value against two lines: a fixed threshold, and two standard deviations from your own 14-day baseline. If either is crossed, the trigger is noted for that day, once, marked as automatic. It is an hourly check of daily values, not a live feed, so it appears within the hour.

Active triggers

Home has an Active triggers card: the top three things pushing on your load right now, with how much each adds and for how many days. It is a list of what the app is comparing, not a verdict. Whether any of it matters for your attacks is what Insights works out over time. Active triggers is part of Premium.

The ones you add yourself

No sensor knows you had a row or sat in a crowded lift. Those are manual: the situations above, plus skipped meal, low blood sugar, recent illness, hangover, alcohol, recreational drugs, a new or missed medication, missed sleep, a nightmare, physical exertion or inactivity, tobacco, allergies, hot weather, stress, a worry spiral, anger, feeling low, let-down after stress, menstruation, ovulation and a contraceptive. Add one from Quick Log on the day it happens, with or without an attack, or on the triggers page of the log.

During setup you tick the situations your attacks tend to follow; those become one-tap favourites. Things you only note now and then are shown as a share of your attacks, because there is no fair day-by-day comparison for them. Collected factors get the stronger comparison: your days around an attack against your other days.

Switch off what you do not want

Every collected factor has its own switch in Data, and Manage Items holds the full trigger list. Anything you switch off, or never grant a permission for, simply stays empty while the rest carries on.

Where it lives in the app

Active triggers on Home lists what is pushing on your load now. The triggers page of the attack log and the Trigger tile in Quick Log hold the manual ones. Manage Items holds the full trigger list, Data holds a switch for every collected factor, and Monitor holds the graphs they come from.

What it needs from you

A few optional permissions, each with a reason: location for weather and altitude, at city level only; the microphone for noise levels, and only the level is kept; on Android, usage access for screen time and sleep timing. The manual triggers are yours to add when they happen. Anything you skip simply stays empty, and Active triggers is part of Premium.

Questions

Which triggers are collected for me?

The ones with a daily value: sleep (bedtime, wake time, duration, stages, disturbances), body (stress, recovery, steps, heart rate zones, blood pressure, blood glucose), caffeine, sugar and the other nutrients from what you eat, screen time and late-night screens on Android, the noise around you, and weather (pressure, temperature, humidity, UV, altitude, plus pollen and air quality if you switch them on).

Will it tell me to avoid something?

No. There is no rule that fits everyone, and avoiding places is exactly what keeps panic going. The app shows whether a factor went with your attack days, and when a pattern shows up, Insights suggests one thing worth testing for a week so the app can compare your days.

Does it use my location all the time?

Location is used at city level only, for weather and altitude, never your exact address.

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