Carlo DiClemente

There's actually a psychological model that explains this whole mess pretty good.

Psychologist James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente developed what has become known as the transtheoretical model, or most of us normal people just call it stages of change.

Now, transtheoretical model, that sounds like something you'd hear right before somebody turns the lights down and puts up a PowerPoint with 146 slides and you start dozing [chuckles] off.

Stay with me.

But every single time, the experience worsened, they became less enjoyable, and I became more and more disconnected with chemsex.

That's called the preparation stage of James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente's five stages of change model.

You may have heard this, especially if you've been in treatment.

Back in the late '70s, these two researchers wanted to know why some people change and why some people don't, and they found that it isn't a switch.