Dallas Bragg explains how people in addiction maintain multiple masks for work, family, partners, and drug friends, creating exhausting persona fatigue. The constant switching between identities drains you mentally and physically, leaving chronic exhaustion and confusion about who you actually are.
Some of y'all with addiction are suffering from persona fatigue. What is persona fatigue? Persona fatigue is when you're getting really exhausted with keeping up so many different masks. You have one personality at work, one personality at school, one personality with your family, with your partner. You have somebody who you're with yourself. You have somebody that you portray when you're with your Crystal meth friends, you have so many different personalities that sometimes you don't know who you are on a day-to-day basis. It gets exhausting. It's draining. Your physical body will begin to feel more tired than usual. You'll be sleeping a lot. You'll— it'll be hard to stay awake because how much longer can you keep up the different disguises?
