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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
  ... mental, and emotional levels is a fact ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that their compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.


2.
  ... mental and physical collapse, brought him to ...  BB We Agnostics, p.56
Post-war disillusionment, ever more serious alcoholism, impending mental and physical collapse, brought him to the point of self-destruction.


3.
  ... mental and physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.  BB Bill's Story, p.7
My brother-in-law is a physician, and through his kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.


4.
  ... mental and physical suffering.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.41
Then came the hospital with unbearable mental and physical suffering.


5.
  ... mental and physical suffering which drinking always ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.36
Here was the threat of commitment, the loss of family and position, to say nothing of that intense mental and physical suffering which drinking always caused him.


6.
  ... mental and spiritual health and self-respect to ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
This self-insurance has resulted in the restoration of physical, mental and spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of men and women who would be hopelessly down and out without its unique but effective therapy."


7.
  ... mental blank spots.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots.


8.
  ... mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents ...  BB Working With Others, p.92
Show him, from your own experience, how the queer mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of the will power.


9.
  ... mental condition too abnormal or dangerous.  BB To Wives, p.114
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.


10.
  ... mental condition were unusually good.  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
His physical and mental condition were unusually good.


11.
  ... mental control.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
I do not hold with those who believe that alcoholism is entirely a problem of mental control.


12.
  ... mental control.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
These men were not drinking to escape; they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control.


13.
  ... mental defectives.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
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.


14.
  ... mental defense against the first drink.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink.


15.
  ... mental deterioration.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
He had but partially recovered from a gastric hemorrhage and seemed to be a case of pathological mental deterioration.


16.
  ... mental disorders, but many of them do ...  BB How It Works, p.58
There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.


17.
  ... mental, emotional, and physical.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at some time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.


18.
  ... mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people.  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people.


19.
  ... mental faculties with assurance, for after all ...  BB Into Action, p.86
Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use.


20.
  ... mental fog settled down.  BB Bill's Story, p.6
Then a mental fog settled down.


21.
  ... mental goose-flesh that used to bring on!  BB We Agnostics, p.54
What a state of mental goose-flesh that used to bring on!


22.
  ... mental health.  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
We, who have recovered from serious drinking, are miracles of mental health.


23.
  ... mental health of the community.  BB A Vision For You, p.163
He got in touch with a prominent psychiatrist who had undertaken certain responsibilities for the mental health of the community.


24.
  ... mental inconsistencies with some of his own.  BB Working With Others, p.92
He will match your mental inconsistencies with some of his own.


25.
  ... mental liabilities.  12&12 Step Four, p.42
When that happens, our great natural assets, the instincts, have turned into physical and mental liabilities.


26.
  Mental obsession plus physical allergy.  12&12 Contents (Step One), p.5
Mental obsession plus physical allergy.


27.
  ... mental obsession so subtly powerful that no ...  12&12 Step One, p.22
Our sponsors declared that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.


28.
  ... mental or emotional independence is in question, ...  12&12 Step Three, p.36
But the moment our mental or emotional independence is in question, how differently we behave.


29.
  ... mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink.


30.
  ... mental readjustment to a life which knows ...  BB To Employers, p.146
Being somewhat weakened, and faced with physical and mental readjustment to a life which knows no alcohol, he may overdo.


31.
  ... mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.


32.
  ... mental state preceding the first drink.  BB A Vision For You, p.157
There was much talk about the mental state preceding the first drink.


33.
  ... mental states that precede a relapse into ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
So we shall describe some of the mental states that precede a relapse into drinking, for obviously this is the crux of the problem.


34.
  ... mental symptoms, the deepening pall of remorse, ...  BB To Wives, p.106
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.


35.
  ... mental torture was so hellish I feared ...  BB Bill's Story, p.6
Then came the night when the physical and mental torture was so hellish I feared I would burst through my window, sash and all.


36.
  ... mental twist already acquired, will find he ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
We doubt if many of them can do it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.


37.
  ... mental twist which leads to the first ...  BB Working With Others, p.92
Show him the mental twist which leads to the first drink of a spree.


38.
  ... mental uplift, I often think of another ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
When I need a mental uplift, I often think of another case brought in by a physician prominent in New York.


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