Some ACOAs suffer with distorted
reasoning, a disease that distorts the reasoning all around them. Because we try so hard to hide the pain of
watching ourselves and those we love become mired in the disease and losing our
grip on our own happiness, we use our thinking to twist and bend the truth into
a more palatable shape.
We rationalize and deny what is right in
front of us, make excuses and sometimes lie because it makes us feel better
than to admit the truth. The alcoholic
lies to hide their uses and abuses, the family members lie to hide the extent
of addiction and their fear, pain, and confusion.
Soon our thinking becomes so filled with
denial and rationalization that we lose our own sense of what is normal. Eventually, our sense of reality becomes
distorted. This was the story of my
life. But now I am able to tolerate the
truth because I know that I have a program, I have accepted the things I cannot
change and changed the things I can.
Hi, I’m Liz Hawkins and I’m a recovering
Adult Child of an Alcoholic.
#ACOAAwareness
@TrinityUniv
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