The Opposite of Everything Is True: Reflections on Denial in Alcoholic Families
Author: William H. Crisman
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ISBN: 0688104207
Publisher: William Morrow (June, 1991)
Sales Rank: 1,161,679
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
like looking in the mirror!
Did you grow up with an alcoholic parent? Then without question you will find yourself in this book. It's almost too painful to read.Crisman's insights are gently delivered, but still, they slap the reader in the face. Was it really like that when I was growing up? Did I let myself get assigned to that particular role? Is this why my brothers/sisters are this way?
I don't wander around in ACA circles, so don't know to what extent this book affects others who grew up in comparable families. But for me, reading ``The Opposite of Everything is True'' was a life-changing event. For the first time ever I realized I was not alone, that the peculiarities within my family weren't caused because I'd been a bad child. I felt like Crisman cut free the shackles binding me to the past.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Review: "The Opposite of Everything is True"
This humorous, and often painful, account of one man's struggle with addiction and alcohol, is a must-read for anyone dealing with family codependence, or the frustration and anger of living with a substance abuser. It is an insightful, forgiving, and gentle recollection of the reversal of one's march towards self-destruction. Along with Melody Beatty's "Codependent No More" series of books, and those of Toby Rice Drews and Vernon E. Johnson, this gem should be part of everyone's recovery library.
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