Concept
Agency is not responsibility
That you can act on something does not make the not-acting a choice. Behavioral activation's own logic supplies the proof: the technique exists because waiting to feel like it does not work, so absent motivation is not evidence of unwillingness. And values persist beneath long inaction — a blocked route is a different object from a lost want.
Where it appears
Treated in
- Part Two — How to PracticeThe StallA stall has exactly three possible causes — capacity, understanding, or want — and each has its own fix that does not substitute for the others.