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Failure Contamination
| Program family | Dark program / Old script |
| Key | failure-contamination |
| Known instances | 3 |
| Status | ACTIVE |
IDENTIFICATION
“One failure predicts all futures.” A single data point gets promoted to a law of nature about you.
HABITAT
- You quote your past like a prophecy: “I always…”, “I never…”.
- New attempts get sabotaged early — losing fast hurts less than hoping.
- You mistake a chapter for the whole book.
RECOGNITION SIGNS
KNOWN MECHANISMS
Anxious Attachment Hypervigilance
Anxious attachment hypervigilance is the tendency — rooted in early unpredictable caregiving — to scan the relational environment for threat signals at unusually low thresholds. Mi
Abandonment Catastrophizing
Abandonment catastrophizing is the cognitive pattern of jumping from a minor relationship disruption — an unanswered message, a partner who seems distracted — to the worst-case con
Attachment Mind Reading
Attachment mind reading is the cognitive distortion of assuming you know a partner's thoughts, feelings, or intentions without direct evidence — and in anxious attachment, the assu
SOURCE LITERATURE
TREATMENT PROTOCOL
- My past is data about old strategies, not a verdict on me.
- “Always” and “never” are the script talking. The count is actually one.
- I'm allowed to be a beginner again, on purpose.
STATUS: READY_TO_INSTALL
“I always quit”
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SCRIPTS
- I Always Quit: why one stop starts to feel like your pattern
- That One Criticism Proves I’m a Failure: Why It Feels Final
- Nothing Ever Works for Me: when one bad run starts sounding like a rule
- These mistakes prove I've lost it for good: when errors start feeling final
- When Your Standard Moves Every Time You Reach It
- When One Clinical Error Feels Like Your Sole Responsibility
- I Can Always Find One More Flaw: When Fixing Never Ends
- I Always Ruin Everything: When One Mistake Feels Like the Whole Story
SCIENCE
- The Science of Engineering Incidents and Identity: Why It's Rarely the Villain's Fault
- The Science of Being Left Out: Your Brain's Ancient Alarm, Running on a Feed
- The Science of Job Loss: Why It Hurts More Than the Missing Paycheck
- The Science of Gambling Distortions: Why Chasing Losses Is a Brain Bug, Not a Character Flaw
QUIZZES
Self-check: I Always Quit: why one stop starts to feel like your patternSelf-check: One Bad Grade Ruins Everything — When a Single Exam Feels FinalSelf-check: That One Criticism Proves I’m a Failure: Why It Feels FinalSelf-check: I Always Ruin Everything: When One Mistake Feels Like the Whole StorySelf-check: The benchmark I use makes me a failure by definitionSelf-check: When One Decision Feels Like Your Whole Future