FLOW HIJACKED

Agency begins in a field of possible actions. That field changes with body, memory, relationship, environment and time.

Prediction, reinforcement and motivational salience interact. Dopamine participates in learning and motivation; it is not a pleasure fluid or a complete explanation.

Cues and contexts can acquire predictive value. Repetition may make one route easier to enter while alternatives remain real but less reachable from the present state.

The changing landscape is a dynamical analogy, not a diagnostic measurement. It makes history, stress, adaptation, habit and path dependence easier to see together.

Learning, habit, memory, stress, withdrawal, sleep, emotion, planning, body state, relationships and surroundings can constrain one another across scales.

A systems account does not erase responsibility. It asks which steps, supports and conditions make another action genuinely executable in this state.

Delay, effort, uncertainty, bodily urgency, future-self continuity and current state can alter how strongly later consequences enter a present comparison.

Recovery is history-dependent. The language of hysteresis is used here as a cautious systems analogy: the route out need not retrace the route in.

Safety, sleep, time, treatment, psychotherapy, medication when appropriate, structure, movement, relationship, community and repeated different outcomes can widen the field. No single package fits everyone.

Neuroscience, psychology, psychotherapy, recovery science, lived experience, relationship, mental health, wellbeing and evidence illuminate different parts of one human system.

A healthier system can have more stable places to stand, more routes between them and more ways to adapt and return. This is a Flow Hijacked synthesis, not a clinical score.