Detox & Recovery Program
THE RESET does not only defend a user at the moment of capture — it rebuilds the cognitive capacity the platforms have ground down and returns the user to self-regulation. The Recovery program braids attention detox, the staged path back, and relapse prevention into a single, monitored pathway, with the Instrumentation Mesh watching every recovering cohort and the Harm & Wellbeing Index standing behind every grade.
Recovery Programs
Six standing programs carry the work, from the first hours of withdrawal up to durable self-regulation. Each runs on its own cadence but reports into the same recovery ledger.
Recovery Pathways
Restoring the connective routes between states of focus, so a user can move from compulsion to rest to deliberate attention without collapsing back. Each pathway is mapped to a user's triggers and dwell pattern, then verified against live telemetry as capacity returns.
Attention Detox
Supervised withdrawal of users from active capture — staged, supported, and monitored rather than abandoned to cold-turnover. Detox runs against the protocol in the SOP Library, with relapse risk tracked the whole way down.
Re-Seeding Healthy Habits
Returning small, durable routines to a recovering user — Focus Mode blocks, deliberate attention windows, and rest cues blended for each cohort. Habit uptake and durability feed the outcomes ledger in Metrics & KPIs.
Recovery Monitoring
Every recovery cohort is wired into Instrumentation Mesh — session dwell, compulsion-loop burden, behavioral affect, and relapse pressure streamed back so recovery is measured, not assumed.
Relapse Prevention
For users sliding back toward capture, controlled re-engagement of the matched counter-patterns restores defenses without re-exposing the user to the original loop. Triggers and protocols come from the Harm & Wellbeing Index.
Cohort Stewardship
Recovery only holds if the user keeps it. Long-term stewardship agreements bind the user, the Focus Mode and Notification Curfew tooling, and a recovery cohort to maintain the gains and the no-capture boundaries after THE RESET steps back.
Active Recovery Cohorts
Seven recovery cohorts are under active care this cycle. Status reflects the most recent Instrumentation Mesh survey: recovering cohorts are self-regulating, establishing cohorts are rebuilding capacity, and early cohorts are in their first weeks under intervention.
| Cohort | Intake | Users | Program | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-Light Group | Chronic Scroll Capture | 412 | Recovery Pathways | recovering |
| Quiet-Hours Group | Notification Floods | 338 | Habit Re-Seeding | recovering |
| Slack-Tide Group | Variable-Reward Loop | 196 | Attention Detox | establishing |
| Low-Water Group | Outrage-Feed Decay | 274 | Recovery Pathways | establishing |
| Long-Dark Group | Acute Compulsion Relapse | 158 | Relapse Prevention | recovering |
| Open-Window Group | Always-On Pressure | 221 | Habit Re-Seeding | early |
| Slow-Return Group | Infinite-Scroll Capture | 389 | Attention Detox | early |
Survey window: Q1–Q2 2091 cycle. User counts are active-under-care population per cohort, not total intake.
The Staged Path Back
No user is logged as recovered without clearing every gate. The path runs the same way for every cohort, under the recovery SOP in the SOP Library.
| # | Stage | What happens | Gate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Triage | A user and a recovery program are matched by capture type, compulsion-loop burden, and wellbeing grade. Only cohorts cleared against the Index enter the recovery pathway. | Science sign-off |
| 2 | Readiness Assessment | Wellbeing state, relapse risk, and dark-pattern exposure are cleared through the Harm & Wellbeing Index before detox begins. | Wellbeing clearance |
| 3 | Detox | Staged, supported withdrawal from active capture during a low-pressure window, with Focus Mode and Notification Curfew on standby and a counter-pattern matched to the loop. | Field go |
| 4 | Post-Detox Monitoring | Instrumentation Mesh tracks recovery — falling session dwell, easing compulsion burden, relapse pressure, and self-regulation across the first full cycle. | Relapse check |
| 5 | Self-Regulation | The user is logged as self-regulating, folded into the recovery ledger, and the cohort transitions to long-term stewardship under its own Focus Mode and Curfew settings. | Integrated |
Outcomes & the Ledger
What the cycle reclaimed
1,988 users under care 3 pathways reconnected 11 detox courses
Self-regulation across the First-Light cohort network reached 78% this cycle — enough durable focus that users move between rest and deliberate attention without a relapse gap. Establishing cohorts are tracked toward the same threshold.
Recovery, relapse, and wellbeing indices are reported in full under Metrics & KPIs.
From intake to durable recovery
First-cycle recovery 84% Six-month durability 71%
Verified reclaimed attention and durable self-regulation are what the directorate counts as real recovery. A user is never logged as recovered against intent alone — only against measured, Instrumentation Mesh-confirmed easing of the relapse metric.
That ledger is what lets THE RESET carry the next cohort through detox on the lessons of the last.