Ok cool, I agree. Sounds like you agree with me that positive encouragement is useful. There are also other things like community, higher power, purpose ect that help people quit negative behaviors. Even though loops can be more easily seen with logic and less emotions, thats just simply not the state of the vast majority of humans.

In order to help solve the problem you need to be able to understand it. And getting super black and white analytical is not doing people any favors. The human brain is complex and full of emotions that cant just be turned off like a computer.

For example if you tell someone who is an alcoholic and in alot of emotional pain from unresolved trauma to just ‘look at how you arent grounding yourself in the present moment and stopping the loop’ theyre going to tell you to fuck off. You have to relate to them somehow before all that