BREAK

Choose this when the loop itself should stop turning. You are not improving or redirecting it, you are cutting, containing, or weakening it. Find the smallest safe set of links to sever, and check whether backup pathways would just carry the loop anyway.

Choose this when the loop itself should stop turning. You are not improving or redirecting it, you are cutting, containing, or weakening it. Find the smallest safe set of links to sever, and check whether backup pathways would just carry the loop anyway.

Example

On the doomscroll loop you pick the stress-to-phone link as the cut: phone charges in the kitchen after 9pm. Then you test for backups and find the iPad and laptop still close the circuit, so the cut has to cover all three devices.