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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman
of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic
of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.
2.
I had to be, for I was hopeless.
3.
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands
of hopeless alcoholics who
might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.
4.
As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from divine help.
5.
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill.
6.
You would suppose that men in
the fourth classification would be quite hopeless, but that is not
so.
7.
They piled on me heaps of evidence to the effect that
an alcoholic mentality, such as I had exhibited in Washington,
was a hopeless condition.
8.
Doubtless you are curious to discover how and
why, in the face of expert opinion to the contrary, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind and body.
9.
If you are satisfied that he is a real alcoholic, begin to dwell on the hopeless feature of the malady.
10.
The patient had made his own diagnosis, and deciding his situation
hopeless, had hidden in a deserted barn determined to die.
11.
In the doctor's judgment
he was utterly hopeless; he
could never regain his position in society and he
would have to place himself
under lock and key or hire a bodyguard if he expected
to live long.
12.
13.
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
14.
15.
To one who feels he is an atheist or agnostic such an experience seems impossible, but to continue as he is means disaster, especially if
he is an alcoholic of the hopeless variety.
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