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Mental Scattering

trap.mental-scatteringICOSA-TRP-0035clinical register

Definition

A trap where scattered attention skims a racing cognitive field — thoughts proliferate faster than focus can land on any one, and as attention flickers onward the previous thread is replaced before it completes. Ideas proliferate without touchdown.

Glossary source /traps/Mental Scattering/definition

Orthography

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Used as an ordinary cognitive description rather than as a typed Icosa trap name.

Usage

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A broad basin, an onset and propagation cascade, a reusable trap type, or an escape or intervention address.
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Naming a self-reinforcing loop anchored by a capacity and a domain at one harmony.

Routed children

These escapes and interventions have no authored names. Each is identified by this parent and its route cell.

Escapes (4)

Interventions (5)

Relationships and lifecycle

Parents