Recovery Debt.
The accumulating gap between recovery required and recovery received. The system carries the debt and pays interest on it.
- Entry
- № 04
- Domain
- Physiological
- Status
- Expanding
- Series
- HCST™ Archive
Recovery Debt is the structural counterpart to load. Where load is the demand a system carries, Recovery Debt is the unmet return — the restoration required but not yet received.
Rest is a behavior. Recovery is an outcome. Modern environments routinely allow the first and obstruct the second.
Restoration is conditional. It requires an environment that permits return, a load profile that does not immediately re-accrue, and enough uninterrupted time for the slowest of the affected systems to complete its cycle. Where any of these is absent, rest occurs without recovery.