If you have quit using drugs and alcohol, or are trying to do so, you have probably already heard that drugs and alcohol lie.
One of the quickest ways of getting you hooked is by deceiving you.
You may have come to believe that drinking and using amounts to "havinggood time," that it was nothing but harmless fun;if you are like most people, you may also have resented anyone and anything which interfered with it.
One of the most important points in recovery is honesty;but this does not only mean you yourself being honest, it also means learning to question the thoughts, feelings, and attitudes which have been colored by the deception of alcohol and drugs.
You can start by questioning how harmless drugs and alcohol have actually been.
Whether you have experienced any negative effects or not, the repercussions to your health could be insurmountable.
Drugs and alcohol have the ability to wreak havoc on your system, even though some effects will not appear for many years.
If you do not like the thought of having a damaged liver, heart, nervous system, and other such serious complications, you can put yourself in the best position of warding off these kinds of problems by questioning alcohol and drugs' "harmlessness" and acknowledging that it is but a part of their deception--substances are bad for your health.
Another excellent point in true recovery's honesty is to question the place drugs or alcohol have taken in your life.
Perhaps they took center-stage.
This, too, is a big part of their deception--not only claiming the spotlight in your life, but convincing you that that was how it really should be.
Drugs and alcohol probably deceived you into believing that anyone and anything else that was in your life should come in second-place, as less important than drinking or getting high.
Now, however, you finally have the option of questioning;and when you do, it is likely that you will see how deceptive the substances have been--for they should not have been taking precedence over your job, your family, your personal interests and goals at all.
Do drugs and alcohol cause even more problems with their deception?Yes, they do.
Another question you may be interested in is whether or not drinking and using was what you yourself actually wanted to put so much time into doing.
In convincing you that you were only having fun, they took your focus off the fact that months, years, or an even longer period of time, were all just passing you by.
While your health, your relationships, and your goals all being undermined by the deception of drugs and alcohol is serious enough for you to begin questioning, allowing them to waste precious time is another motivating factor.
Your life is what is passing you by when you are too high or too drunk to even notice--and that fact alone is just cause to question the place of drugs and alcohol in your life!