A person used AI to understand why 12-step programs weren't working for them, discovering their addiction was arousal-based rather than substance-focused. They argue that chemsex recovery needs specialized treatment addressing sexual dynamics, not just the standard recovery framework.
For the longest time in traditional recovery, I had been thinking that there was something wrong with me because it just didn't seem to be— something wasn't quite landing and I kept on relapsing. But it was only when I started using AI that I started to understand that the addiction itself was actually different. And there were certain reasons why, although 12-step programs are very helpful, then they can provide a great I, you know, scaffolding for, for, for recovery in terms of providing a support network and doing service and all those wonderful things. But it actually, it's not really suited to an arousal-based addiction where the sex and the drugs are just entirely fused because there is very little talk about recovery from chemsex, which requires a kind of sexual template normalization.
