Reactive parts - firefighters

Emergency responders: douse pain now, invoice later.

Description

When exiles’ pain breaches containment, firefighters distract, numb, or attack. They are impulsive on purpose, because from where they are standing the house is on fire and you are asking about the mortgage.

We find it useful to remember that firefighters are not choosing badly. They are choosing fast, which is a different problem and needs a different fix.

What Reactive parts - firefighters is NOT:

Not malice, and not an identity, whatever the addiction narrative says. Not the same as being spontaneous either, though from outside the two are indistinguishable for about a day.

Examples:

Scrolling for forty minutes after someone criticises your work.
Starting an argument because it is easier than feeling embarrassed.
Drinking at 1 a.m. because the loneliness got loud.

see also:

Protectors; Proactive parts - managers; Exiles; Polarization