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When recovery becomes another performance

I've been lying about my sobriety for six months and drinking alone every night while everyone celebrates my recovery

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The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between public narrative and private reality creates a double life that feeds the original addiction.

Ideas that help explain it
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