Dallas Bragg compares meth relapse to an abusive relationship with yourself. Each time you use after knowing better, you fracture your integrity and build an internal voice that keeps attacking you. Real recovery means fixing that self‑relationship first, before you can repair anything else.
When you decide to stop using, but you keep going back to meth, you develop a toxic and abusive relationship with yourself. It's like having a partner who continues to go out and cheat on you after all these emotional apologies, promises never to do it again, but then he goes back. That's because there is such a distance between who you know you are and what you are actually doing. Words and actions are out of alignment. And you are out of integrity. So when you stop using the substance, you're often left with that toxic and abusive voice still in your head. Before you make amends with anybody else in your life, I suggest you work on healing the relationship you have with yourself. That's where the real growth happens.
