Recovery · Relapse Prevention
Seemingly Irrelevant Decisions Log
The 'innocent' choices that stack into being alone with the bottle
SIDs — the small "innocent" choices that stack up into being alone with the bottle. "I'll just drive past the old neighborhood." "I'll keep one beer in the fridge for guests." Each SID is a link in a chain the addict brain built on purpose.
Log of decisions that walked me closer to using
Decision
Story I told myself
What it actually set up
What I'll do instead
My personal SID red-flag list (I know these are never innocent for me)
No decision is neutral in early recovery
If a choice moves you one step closer to the substance and you can't say why you're making it — that's the decision that matters.