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The doctor proved to be able and exceedingly anxious to adopt any workable method of handling the situation.
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Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven
to A.A., and there we discover
the fatal nature of our situation.
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The benefit of talking to
another person is that we
can get his direct comment and counsel on our
situation, and there can be no doubt in our minds what that advice is.
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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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The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide
and your full confidence
in the one with whom you share
your first accurate self-survey.
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When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
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We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation
as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.
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To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for the
strength to do the right thing.
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Though a situation had not
been entirely our fault, we
tried to disregard the other person involved entirely.
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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 was the usual situation: home in jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, bills in arrears and standing damaged.
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The patient had made his own diagnosis, and deciding his situation hopeless, had hidden in a deserted barn determined to die.
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Or we may encounter the reverse situation, in which we
are highly elated because we seem to have been successful.
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To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be
happy.
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We want to leave you with the
feeling that no situation is too difficult and no unhappiness too great to be overcome.
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When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
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I know, in my own particular case, that nothing my company could have
done would have stopped me
for, so long as I was able to hold my position, I could not
possibly realize how serious my situation was.
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There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.
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That will arise in the occasional situation where to
make a full revelation would seriously harm the one to whom we are making amends.
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We think the business fabric is shot through with a situation which
might be helped by better understanding all around.
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Highly competent psychiatrists who have dealt with us have found it sometimes impossible to
persuade an alcoholic
to discuss his situation without reserve.
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