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

Why You’re Stuck in Addiction #addictiontreatment

28 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this excerpt Dallas Bragg reflects on how individuals struggling with addiction often develop multiple personas shaped by community expectations and upbringing, leading to a fragmented sense of self. He argues that crystal meth is perceived as a shortcut that temporarily frees users from these external pressures, allowing them to express a confident, sexual, and powerful identity they feel they cannot otherwise access. Bragg frames recovery not as abandoning the drug but as a process of integrating these disparate personality fragments—described as "fractals"—into a cohesive, authentic self, thereby achieving wholeness.

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Aren't you exhausted with trying to keep up with all your different personalities? Never really knowing who you truly are. You're forming all these different personas based on the expectations of the community or the upbringing that you had. It's no wonder that using crystal meth helps you feel like, ah, I can finally be myself without having to think about what anyone else thinks of me. I can unleash everything inside me and be that sexual, confident, powerful being that I'm supposed to be. Using Crystal Meth is a shortcut to finding out who you truly are deep inside. Recovery is about integration. You're integrating all these different personalities because in each one is a part of you, a fractal of you. You put those together into wholeness and you begin to be your authentic self.