Dallas Bragg says quitting meth is easy compared to what comes after. When you stop, the trauma and coping mechanisms that led you there surface raw. The real recovery work is unpacking perfectionism, people-pleasing, and anxious attachment that meth was masking.
If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. Quitting meth is the easy part of recovery. There is a road you've traveled in your life that led you to active use. You may feel like meth use is the climax of your story, but it's what an author would know of as the rising action leading up to the climax. This is where we get it wrong and we stay stuck in that rising part. Which means living life constantly triggered. Unhappiness, discontent, addicted to meetings, emotionally dysregulated. Because when you take the meth away, all of that stuff that happened prior rises up. There's no buffer anymore. And now you have to face it. You have to face those raw emotions, unpack your trauma, peel back the layers of the coping mechanisms that have kept you safe, like perfectionism, people pleasing, anxious attachment in relationships, etc. That's when the real work begins, and that's when you are moving forward into that great climax of feeling whole, self-awareness, and you're finally at peace.
