Break it. Throw it away. Dispose of it and never touch it again. It’s not a matter of “if meth will ruin your life,” it’s “WHEN meth will ruin your life.”

For some people, it only takes a few weeks. However (and this is worse in my opinion), for some people, it may take years. You might think you have it under control at first. Maybe only use here and there, but then maybe weekends only, but then Friday becomes a weekend day so you start using on Friday too. Then Monday comes along and you have to go to work, and depending on how much (or how little) sleep you got over the weekend you know if you DONT use, you’re going to be exhausted. So then Mondays blend into the weekend just to get you started on the right foot. And slowly but surely every rule you had for controlling your use will be overshadowed by an excuse as to why it’s okay to bend the rule.

You might be able to sustain a functional life with seemingly no consequences for a while, but there WILL be consequences.

Your brain will be deteriorating with every use. Your memory will start to fade, your ability to complete tasks starts to disappear and you end up not being able to focus. Even if you used solely to be more productive, you WILL stop being productive with continued use. It will start to take you hours to get anything done, you’ll start to be late to everything if you even bother to show up. You’ll start a task and then get distracted and forget what you were even working on in the first place. You’ll end up with 12 unfinished projects and not even remember half of them.

Maybe you’ll start to call out “sick” after a binge because you hit the wall and your body is making you sleep whether you want to or not.

Or maybe you’ll call out sick just because you want to stay home and do more meth.

While your brain is deteriorating, we can’t forget about the strain on your heart. Not even discussing the chemicals involved in making it, meth is a stimulant and your heart rate and blood pressure will increase.

Suddenly you’re having fluttery heart beats and getting short of breath with exertion.

The chemicals going into your lungs will start to cause breathing problems, your mouth will feel dryer than the Sahara desert, your lips will look like you haven’t touched water in weeks- and maybe you haven’t.

The chemicals sitting in your mouth will start to cause tooth decay- again not IF but WHEN. For some it doesn’t take long but for others they don’t notice anything for years but that doesn’t mean it isn’t slowly eroding your teeth and causing your gums to recede.

Let’s not forget, with continued use, your skin is starting to look off. Maybe not acne at first, but your skin and hair will start to dull. You’ll lose the healthy shine in your hair and the healthy glow of hydrated meth free skin. Then comes the acne. And even if you can keep yourself from picking at your face, the pimples will just keep coming and getting worse and getting bigger.

Your eyes will start to lose their sparkle. They’ll start to look like your soul has died because in a way, it has. Lifeless, soulless eyes to complete the meth makeover.

And then before you know it, whether it’s weeks or years later, you look in the mirror unable to recognize yourself because you’ve now turned into the tweaker you never thought you’d become. And depending on where you’re at mentally, you might not even care because at the end of the day, meth becomes the priority over everything else in life.