Addiction, Urges & Compulsions
Process for 5 minute reset
I'm About To Relapse
5 minute guided tool
No speech. No fake calm. Work with about to relapse through one grounded move.
Tool fit
Process fits about to relapse because the moment needs somewhere honest to go. Use a short unload, then choose: contact one safe person, remove access, or start a ten-minute replacement action.
IF
IF about to relapse is happening right now and the trap is negotiating with the craving while it is loudest
THEN
- Start with about to relapse, not the whole backstory.
- change location, add friction, and delay the first step toward the old pattern
- Keep it small. Your job is not to fix all of about to relapse; it is to change the next sixty seconds.
- Block the immediate risk: letting one urge become a full return to the pattern.
- Pick one sensory reset: cool water on hands, focus on one object, step into different light, or change rooms.
- If this is increasing pressure instead of lowering it, stop here. Switch paths, step away from the tool, or use real-world support.
WHY
This works because urges peak, bargain, and fade when access is delayed and the same thought pattern is interrupted. A short process gives about to relapse somewhere to go without turning it into letting one urge become a full return to the pattern.