Dallas Bragg tells gay men in recovery that horny or bored aren't your real triggers. Opening Grindr is downstream. He scrolled Instagram, felt inadequate, chased validation on dating apps, and that's when meth became easy. Find the emotional state underneath.
If you're a gay man trying to get sober from crystal meth, you want to figure out what exactly is the trigger that caused you to relapse in your last time. When I ask this to men, I always hear, well, I got horny, or I got bored, or I wanted to have sex. That is not what triggers you to use crystal meth, I promise. For instance, when you download Grindr and you get on Grindr, or you open Sniffies and you start looking and you end up relapsing, That is not the beginning of your trigger. What caused you to re-download that app? For me, I know in my, one of my last relapses, I was on Instagram. I saw some images that made me feel less than, made me feel isolated, made me feel ugly. Well, what's the quickest way for us to feel pretty again? Get on Grindr, get us some attention, get us some validation, get that dopamine spike up. And once we're there in the land of meth, then it's easier to use. So dig down deep to really find out what's triggering you.
