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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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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.
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Get an idea of his behavior, his problems, his
background, the seriousness of his condition, and his religious leanings.
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Even though your protégé may not have entirely admitted his condition, he has become very curious to know how you got well.
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"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism
as an illness, the social
stigma associated with
this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to
have been a great venture in
social pioneering which
forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."
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The family may object to
this, but unless he is in a dangerous physical condition, it is better to risk it.
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If the book is read the moment the patient is able, while acutely depressed, realization of his condition
may come to him.
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It was only at the end of a long
road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.
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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.
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Show him, from your own experience, how the queer mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of the
will power.
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Your man will fare better if placed in such physical condition that he can
think straight and no longer craves liquor.
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If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor
that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or dangerous.
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It did not matter too much
what our material condition
was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was.
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It did not matter too much
what our material condition
was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was.
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But the moment I made up my mind to go
through with the process,
I had the curious feeling
that my alcoholic condition
was relieved, as in fact it
proved to be.
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We hope the doctor will tell the patient the truth about his
condition, whatever that happens to be.
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This is a condition which, in ordinary life, would produce untold grief; there might be scandalous gossip, laughter at the expense of
other people, and a tendency to take advantage of intimate information.
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