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The only river where you're both the captain and the one drowning.
means A refusal to accept a painful or inconvenient truth, even when the evidence is right in front of you.
from From French 'denier' and Latin 'denegare' — 'de-' (completely) plus 'negare' ('to deny, say no'), the same root that gives us 'negate' and 'renegade.' At bottom it's just the word 'no,' said so hard and so long that it becomes a place to live.
- not a lie
- the brain genuinely believes its own cover story
- stage one
- of grief, and sometimes a permanent address
- self-protective
- evolved to buy time before truth overwhelms you
- ends badly
- usually right when everyone else already knew