Booze Beast Lie #5 - I'm not really THAT bad.

[retteacher]

Booze Beast Lie #5 - I'm not really THAT bad.

Unfortunately, the farther I am to my last drink (multiple days), the more I think that I might be able to drink normally like I once did. I tell myself I'm "cured." Of course, my relapses (after double & triple digit AF days), threw me right back to binge drinking. I didn't fool around w/one or two & escalate slowly. It was as if I had never stopped at all.

So, that's why I cannot believe this lie or any other "You're OK" lie that the booze beast has to offer.

Mary

[Doggygirl]

Booze Beast Lie #5 - I'm not really THAT bad.

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[retteacher]

Booze Beast Lie #5 - I'm not really THAT bad.

This thread was so great to read again, because I use this rationalization often. Yes, I am that bad. I remember Deter in a post once said (paraphrasing): "If you handed a normal drinker a whole bottle of wine & told him/her to drink it all, he/she would think you were crazy." I drank a whole (big) bottle as a matter of course. I cannot drink just one or two or three. It has to be 5, 6, 7 or more for me. Yes, I AM that bad. Mary

[happydog]

Booze Beast Lie #5 - I'm not really THAT bad.

Great thread mary..Lie 5

Yes Mary i can identify to this .....

im really not that bad or i should not be here......

Only last week i felt like this at my group sessions, im not that bad or should not be here because i have not been in trouble with the police or im not on probation or i do not go crazy made.......feels like im in denial im ok. IT felt good that someone else felt the same way because he felt like he could go without AL drink for weeks and weeks and when he does he binge drinks.

The think is we are all in the same boat. we cant stop drinking when we do drink AL!

Thanks mary i know also I am that bad!

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[cmhguy3]

Booze Beast Lie #5 - I'm not really THAT bad.

Another oldie but a goodie! These have been so great for me to read today!

I can so relate to the 5 points Mary posted. I did not miss work, but I was still so unproducitve so many times that I was not there mentally. Plus everyone can smell you! Yuck! And "falling asleep in the chair" is passing out no matter how you want to sugar coat it!

Thanks again to all!