Dallas Bragg describes warning signs that chemical use is becoming a problem: escalating risk-taking while high, using more often, lingering anxiety or shame afterward, and calling out of work because a weekend high bled into Monday. He shares how a friend pointed out that missing work was his first clear sign he was going too far, and urges anyone seeing these signs to get help now.
It may be time to make some changes if the chems are starting to harm your mental or physical health, your work or relationships are starting to suffer, you're taking bigger risks when you're high, you're starting to take chems more often, feelings of anxiety and shame after using, right? So if you are using and some of these are slipping into your life, then you don't have to wait till you lose it all. It's time to get help now, right? You see Like, it's the— it's like the first time you call out of work because the weekend lasted too long, the, the chill out bled into your workday, then that, that is going to be a sign that you're slipping, right? To me, because that— the first time I called out of work, the guy I was with, he was like, this is the first sign you're, you're, you're going to— you're going too far. You know, this guy that I just chilled out, chilled with for 24 or 48 hours, he was like, you just called out of work, that means you're on your way down with me.
