Understanding Why I Use

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Why do we use Tina?

We can begin using Tina for a variety of reasons:

To party, for the rush, or because it’s taboo
Because we’re offered it, we are curious or are are bored
To medicate depression, anxiety or cope with trauma
To medicate ADD/ADHD or OCD
We feel like it improves productivity for boring tasks
To boost our self-esteem and feel a sense of tribe
To cope with the stress
Because we recently immigrated and want more friends
To cope with sexual racism, internalised homophobia, biphobia, or transphobia
To cope with HIV stigma, shame or fatigue
To lose weight, dance all night or fuck all night
Because hot guys will have sex with us if we do Tina with them
To give ourselves permission to not use condoms, or to bottom
It’s a part of online social networking and bathhouse culture
We don’t know how to have sober sex anymore
Because it’s the best high we’ve ever had
Didn’t know Tina is a different drug than others we have tried

What are some of yours? Many of us don’t begin using thinking we’re in any danger of developing problems and becoming dependent or addicted.

Why do we stop using Tina?

Different people have different reasons. Some common ones include:

Desire for more honesty and integrity; tired of lying all the time
We want to have our career move forward
To avoid job loss and recover from financial loss
Desire to repair broken relationships
We miss the friends we lost, or the boyfriend who left us because of Tina
We want a long-term relationship
We want to see our family again
We have to deal with criminal charges
We want our memory back
We want to have energy again
We want our Viral Load to be Undetectable again
We need to fix our dental health
We want to have sex with a whole person
We want to have where we feel a connection the next day
We have to deal with Hep C coinfection
We want to have fun again if Tina hasn’t been fun in a long time
We want less drama
We want stable housing/living environment

What are some of your reasons?