Dallas Bragg works with men in chemsex recovery, describing meth use as fragmenting the self. True recovery means integrating those broken parts back together through therapy, art, and support groups, not just stopping the drug.
And we had a— I had a client on one of the podcasts here, and the name of it is The Gifts of Chemsex, like the gifts you get from it. Yes. And as gay men going through the chemsex experience, oftentimes, is that rite of passage? It's something that gets your attention to force you to, like you're saying, to look at your shadow parts. And then the recovery is not quitting the substance. It's the integration of these parts and beginning to be whole again or whole for the first time in your life. And you're— before, I feel like we're walking around fragmented and meth may have blown that up, but recovery is bringing it all back here together. Absolutely. So in a container, therapy, maybe art, support groups. Absolutely. Right? Yeah. I mean, it's anything like that.
