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These men were not drinking
to escape; they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control.
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He has lost control.
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As we redouble our efforts at control, and continue to fail, our suffering becomes acute and constant.
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The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.
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All of us felt at times that we
were regaining control, but
such intervals -- usually brief -- were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.
12.
Two: Your husband is showing lack of control, for he is unable to stay on the water wagon even when he wants to.
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On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand
-- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of
ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only
effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
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If anyone who is showing inability to control his drinking can do the right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to
him.
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If he sticks to the idea that
he can still control his drinking, tell him that possibly he can -- if he is not too alcoholic.
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He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or
may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of
his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.
17.
Some time later, and just as he thought he was getting control of his liquor situation, he went on a roaring bender.
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It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control our
drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we
were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives.
20.
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we had
a feeling of uselessness, we were full of
fear, we were unhappy, we
couldn't seem to be of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
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We are certain that our intelligence, backed by
willpower, can rightly
control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in.
22.
If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little
control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
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By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that
years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression.
24.
Nevertheless, I still
thought I could control the
situation, and there were periods of sobriety which renewed my wife's hope.
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All of us felt at times that we
were regaining control, but
such intervals -- usually brief -- were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.
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There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it.
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