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Some Characteristics Of Growing Up in an Alcoholic
Family
- Adult children of alcoholics guess at what normal is
- Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty following a
project through from beginning to end.
- Adult children of alcoholics lie when it would be just as
easy to tell the truth.
- Adult children of alcoholics judge themselves without mercy.
- Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty having fun.
- Adult children of alcoholics take themselves very seriously.
- Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty with intimate
relationships.
- Adult children of alcoholics overreact to changes over which
they have no control.
- Adult children of alcoholics constantly seek approval and
affirmation.
- Adult children of alcoholics usually feel different from
other people.
- Adult children of alcoholics are super responsible or super
irresponsible.
- Adult children of alcoholics are extremely loyal even in
the face of evidence that the loyalty is undeserved.
- Adult children of alcoholics tend to lock themselves into
a course of action without giving serious consideration to alternative
behaviors or possible consequences. This impulsively leads to
confusion, self loathing, and loss of control of their environment.
as a result more energy is spent cleaning up the mess than would
have been spent had the alternatives and consequences been examined
in the first place.
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