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DoubleDragons I love your post, JD. I was in a very irritable mood yesterday and almost everyone I came in contact with annoyed me. I think I have gotten used to such raw honesty and humble self introspection here on SR, that when the rest of the world doesn't match that, I get frustrated, but reality is to get to this level of self honesty, I think most people have to have had a major crisis that gave them no choice but to get honest with themselves. That is the blessing of our addictions that stopped working for us.
It's ironic but nothing seems to help an alcoholic more than the truth about themselves. Yet, nothing seems to pi$$ off an alcoholic more than the truth about themselves.
Truth, via self-appraisal, is like a double edge sword that cuts both ways.