Dallas Bragg argues that shame drives addiction and that shame-based recovery messages backfire. He says people should leave any recovery program that relies on blame or shaming, because it pushes them back toward substance use.
Because I've said it a billion times, shame got you into the addiction. Shame is not what's going to get you out. So if you are in some recovery circle anywhere, it doesn't matter what, and you are feeling shame and you are being told that it's your fault and just quit and all this other shit that makes you feel really, really bad about yourself, get out of it. Get out of it. Yeah. Because that is, it's doing you no good but compounding the issue. They might as well be sending you right outside to use drugs.
Yep.
Am I correct here?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You know, and I think about this messaging of shame of I am bad, I am wrong. Right. And it's like, you know, in stepping back and looking at this too, it's like this kind of phrasing, then it's this tunnel where it can be this never-ending tunnel because of having this really deep belief rather than taking a step back and questioning about like, okay, where did this messaging come from?
