Comments on: 4 ways to lie http://www.greythinking.com/2011/12/04/4-ways-to-lie/ "being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things." - christina, grey's anatomy Thu, 02 May 2013 23:42:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: BL http://www.greythinking.com/2011/12/04/4-ways-to-lie/comment-page-1/#comment-2714 BL Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:05:38 +0000 http://www.greythinking.com/?p=932#comment-2714 This post definitely hit home, especially the lying to yourself part and the lying by omission. I don’t even think a lot of it is intentional…it’s like you said, in the moment you feel “fine”, so not telling your therapist that you skipped a meal or purged or whatever doesn’t seem like a big deal.

Your post made me think of another House quote on lying that I blogged about a few weeks ago. He says: “Problem is, if I can’t trust you, I can’t trust your statement that I can trust you. But thanks anyway, you’ve been a big help.”

This is how I feel with treatment professionals and my family. Even though I am being more honest now, the fact that I have lied so much in the past, no one (especially my mom) believes anything I say. I am trying to show through my actions that I can be trusted, but it’s hard. Furthermore, when I feel like no one is going to believe me anyway, the temptation to just keep up the old behaviors becomes so much stronger.

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