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

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SICK   occurs   34 times 27 in BB  •  7 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... sick.  BB Bill's Story, p.11
The wars which had been fought, the burnings and chicanery that religious dispute had facilitated, made me sick.


2.
  ... sick.  BB How It Works, p.64
From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.


3.
  ... sick.  BB How It Works, p.66
This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick.


4.
  ... sick.  BB Working With Others, p.92
Tell him how baffled you were, how you finally learned that you were sick.


5.
  ... sick.  BB To Employers, p.141
You can see that he is mentally and physically sick.


6.
  ... sick.  BB A Vision For You, p.164
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick.


7.
  ... sick and irresponsible child who needs to ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
As matters get worse, the husband becomes a sick and irresponsible child who needs to be looked after and extricated from endless scrapes and impasses.


8.
  ... sick, and panic takes over when he ...  12&12 Step Three, p.39
His financial insecurity worries him sick, and panic takes over when he thinks of all the bridges to safety that alcohol burned behind him.


9.
  ... sick brother?  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
Who dared to be judge, jury, and executioner of his own sick brother?


10.
  ... sick emotions.  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
Let's remember that alcoholics are not the only ones bedeviled by sick emotions.


11.
  ... sick employees.  BB To Employers, p.139
To me, this incident illustrates lack of understanding as to what really ails the alcoholic, and lack of knowledge as to what part employers might profitably take in salvaging their sick employees.


12.
  ... sick friend.  BB How It Works, p.67
We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.


13.
  ... sick man.  BB How It Works, p.67
When a person offended we said to ourselves, "This is a sick man.


14.
  ... sick man.  BB To Employers, p.147
If you are an alcoholic, you are a mighty sick man.


15.
  ... sick man from temptation is doomed to ...  BB Working With Others, p.101
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure.


16.
  ... sick man, "the very image.  BB A Vision For You, p.157
"Yes, that's me," said the sick man, "the very image.


17.
  ... sick men.  BB To Wives, p.107
Sometimes we sensed dimly that we were dealing with sick men.


18.
  ... sick ones and fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
They will approach still other sick ones and fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous may spring up in each city and hamlet, havens for those who must find a way out.


19.
  ... sick ones, or none at all.  12&12 Step Two, p.31
We prayed for healthy children, and were presented with sick ones, or none at all.


20.
  ... sick or wayward child.  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
By force of circumstances, she was often obliged to treat father as a sick or wayward child.


21.
  ... sick people.  BB How It Works, p.70
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.


22.
  ... sick people.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
We seriously thought of rewriting the laws of the land, and having it declared that alcoholics are sick people.


23.
  ... sick people, deranged men.  BB To Employers, p.149
Of course, this chapter refers to alcoholics, sick people, deranged men.


24.
  ... sick people that way.  BB How It Works, p.67
We wouldn't treat sick people that way.


25.
  ... sick person.  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
Many do not comprehend that the alcoholic is a very sick person.


26.
  ... sick person.  BB Working With Others, p.90
They should be patient, realizing they are dealing with a sick person.


27.
  ... sick person and should be treated accordingly.  BB Working With Others, p.100
But urge upon a man's family that he has been a very sick person and should be treated accordingly.


28.
  ... sick person, you will have created a ...  BB To Wives, p.115
When you have carefully explained to such people that he is a sick person, you will have created a new atmosphere.


29.
  ... sick, there is unremitting danger to our ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
For us, if we neglect those who are still sick, there is unremitting danger to our own lives and sanity.


30.
  ... sick too.  BB How It Works, p.67
Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too.


31.
  ... sick, unreasonable person.  BB To Wives, p.108
He is just another very sick, unreasonable person.


32.
  ... sick, when as a matter of fact ...  BB To Wives, p.115
Frequently, you have felt obliged to tell your husband's employer and his friends that he was sick, when as a matter of fact he was tight.


33.
  ... sick, which was much nearer the truth ...  BB To Wives, p.106
We have told small tots that father was sick, which was much nearer the truth than we realized.


34.
  ... sick, you might jump to the conclusion ...  BB To Employers, p.146
When his wife next calls saying he is sick, you might jump to the conclusion he is drunk.


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