Dallas BraggFormer crystal methamphetamine user, I help men who have sex with men break free from the addictive patterns associated with Chemsex. Currently expanding my expertise by seeking to become a Certified

What You Need to Know about Cravings

11 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, Dallas Bragg addresses men struggling with meth cravings, emphasizing that cravings themselves are not a measure of failure or progress in recovery. He argues that the critical factor is how one responds to cravings—panic, rumination, and adopting a victim mindset turn cravings into a problem, whereas maintaining agency and a calm response keeps them from derailing recovery. Bragg urges listeners to avoid playing the victim role, which relinquishes control of their recovery to external forces.

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Listen, cravings are not a sign of your progress or your success in your recovery journey. I hear men often spiral out emotionally because they've had a strong craving to use meth, and they use that as evidence of their shortcomings, of their wrongdoings, of their ongoing failure. That is just not the case. Having a craving does not signify how far along you've come in your recovery or where you are on the scale of your success. As with anything, Like anything else in life, the importance of cravings is in your response to them. So if you panic and you begin dwelling on this state of fear because I had a craving, they do become problematic. This is you playing the role of victim, and when you take that role, you step aside and you let something else take the wheel of your recovery.