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The Pour Script
| Program family | Dark program / Old script |
| Key | drinking-loop |
| Known instances | 3 |
| Status | ACTIVE |
“Relief comes from the glass, and today qualifies.” Permission-giving thoughts dress the pour up as a reward, a medicine, or an exception — always just this once.
- The day's difficulty gets audited for whether it justifies a drink.
- “Just one” has a documented history of not being one.
- You drink to switch off a feeling, not to enjoy anything.
A permission-giving thought is an internal rationalization that provides cognitive cover for a lapse before it occurs. Common forms include 'I deserve it after the week I've had,'
The Abstinence Violation Effect (AVE) is the cognitive and emotional reaction that follows a first lapse: a person attributes the slip to their own fixed character ('I'm weak,' 'I
A high-risk situation chain is the sequence of internal and external conditions that funnel a person toward a lapse: emotional dysregulation (stress, boredom, loneliness, frustrati
Researchers
- The urge is loud for 15 minutes. I can outlast 15 minutes.
- A drink doesn't end the stress. It postpones it with interest.
- I don't negotiate exceptions with a script that always wins them.
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“I need a drink to relax”
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