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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Questioning directed
to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me
anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
5.
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety,
remorse, and depression; and
how, unconsciously seeking relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to
conceal.
6.
The alarming physical
and mental symptoms, the
deepening pall of remorse, depression and inferiority that settled
down on our loved ones -- these things terrified and distracted
us.
7.
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
8.
To those of us who have hitherto known only excitement, depression, or anxiety -- in other words, to all of us -- this newfound peace is a priceless gift.
9.
If they sense these things,
they will not take so seriously his periods of crankiness, depression, or apathy, which will disappear when there is tolerance, love, and spiritual understanding.
10.
What happens when we wallow
in depression, self-pity oozing from every pore, and inflict that upon those about us?
11.
His alcoholic problem
was so complex, and his depression so great, that we felt his only hope would be through what we then called
"moral psychology," and
we doubted if even that would
have any effect.
12.
Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.
13.
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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