What are some of the biggest lies you told yourself while drinking?
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What are some of the biggest lies you told yourself while drinking?
Just remembering a few.
No one knew or smelled.
My bottles were well hidden. Well, to be honest, I knew they weren't well hidden but I didn't care despite big consequences.
That vodka was somehow either good for me or in a neutral category.
Russians have been living on vodka for centuries. They even have vodka stand. So that made me fine.
I had more time to quit. I've heard the 20 years number thrown around and kept thinking that it wasn't necessary to quit now, that I had a few years left in me. Nothing happened with my health, but I did have right quadrant intermittent pain or heightened observation, not really pain, until I was sober for two weeks.
That quitting wouldn't make a dent in my mood.
that my anxiety and depression cycle were not caused by alcohol but just related to my sucky life.
all lies of one degree or another that I believe or at least half assedly believed for years.
No one knew or smelled.
My bottles were well hidden. Well, to be honest, I knew they weren't well hidden but I didn't care despite big consequences.
That vodka was somehow either good for me or in a neutral category.
Russians have been living on vodka for centuries. They even have vodka stand. So that made me fine.
I had more time to quit. I've heard the 20 years number thrown around and kept thinking that it wasn't necessary to quit now, that I had a few years left in me. Nothing happened with my health, but I did have right quadrant intermittent pain or heightened observation, not really pain, until I was sober for two weeks.
That quitting wouldn't make a dent in my mood.
that my anxiety and depression cycle were not caused by alcohol but just related to my sucky life.
all lies of one degree or another that I believe or at least half assedly believed for years.
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The biggest lie I told myself was that alcohol and drugs were going to kill me. Year after year I thought I would be dead from a overdose or develop severe liver damage. One day I woke and realized that I could go on living like a alcoholic and drug addict for a very long time. Living life in a dark cloud of depression and pain.
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As long as began chugging after 12, wasn't an alki
Show up to work on time, stayed late & was a top performer
Rotate liquor stores
& the best 1...drum roll please:Hide bottles-then forget later where put em..loh
Show up to work on time, stayed late & was a top performer
Rotate liquor stores
& the best 1...drum roll please:Hide bottles-then forget later where put em..loh
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That everyone drinks like I do. That drinking one to two bottles of wine a night is normal, and is what professional people do. That drinking makes me more sophisticated and likeable. That I deserve a few drinks as I work hard. I don't have kids so I get to spend my money on rewarding myself by getting wasted. That drinking doesn't affect me and nobody knows I drink a lot. That I am right and perfect and my husband and family are interfering A- holes.
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My biggest one to myself.
Your not like them. Your special and different in a BAD way. They deserve sobriety but you don't so just don't bother anymore fella.
My biggest one to others.
I have tried my hardest and i just can't do this. You are better off without me...
Both lies helped to keep me sick for the longest time......
Both self centered and full of fear. Fear of sobriety, the great unknown for me.
Your not like them. Your special and different in a BAD way. They deserve sobriety but you don't so just don't bother anymore fella.
My biggest one to others.
I have tried my hardest and i just can't do this. You are better off without me...
Both lies helped to keep me sick for the longest time......
Both self centered and full of fear. Fear of sobriety, the great unknown for me.
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That I had it under control and I could function and meet my obligations.
I am sober six months on Monday – I do not even see the full extend of that lie yet.
Drinking is a waste of life, strange those lies and rationalizations did cover that up for me for so many years.
I am sober six months on Monday – I do not even see the full extend of that lie yet.
Drinking is a waste of life, strange those lies and rationalizations did cover that up for me for so many years.
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mine were, I could stop if i wanted too! Ok next week I will lay off for a few days (next week never came) I am ok work hard so why should I stop? It helps me relax? (it didnt made me depressed) I could always find an excuse to keep drinking but verry few to stop! But 20 days ago after many years of heavy drinking my wife looked me in the eye and said "babe please stop for me, I want you back" well then I found a good reason to stop it was not fair on her so now everday I dont drink I say I have one the challange again and keep going.
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Mine would be I could stay really fit and train. I use to start drinking straight after I worked out.. Stupid.. I noticed my balance and strength got really bad over time.. I was kidding myself.
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I actually rarely told lies to myself, just others, many of them. When I was in my late twenties, early thirties, I actually resigned myself to an early death, probably when I was about 40. Oooh how depressing!!
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