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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SUFFERED occurs
15 times
6 in BB • 9 in 12&12
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1.
They
expect him to
give them
the
nice times they
used to have
before he
drank so
much, and to
show his
contrition for what
they
suffered.
2.
In this
statement he
confirms what we who have
suffered alcoholic torture must believe -- that the
body of the
alcoholic is
quite as
abnormal as his
mind.
3.
Our
reputations hadn't
suffered,
because we were
certain few knew of our
drinking.
4.
5.
He
simply could not
believe
that his
brother-
executive suffered from a
serious illness.
6.
He
suffered horribly from
his
sprees, but it
seemed as
if
nothing could be
done for
him.
7.
The
man in the
bed was
told of the
acute poisoning from which he
suffered, how it
deteriorates
the
body of an
alcoholic
and
warps his
mind.
8.
9.
Since the
home has
suffered more than
anything else, it is
well that a
man exert himself there.
10.
... suffered of
irritability, anxiety, remorse, and depression; ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
11.
... suffered severely
from self-justification during their drinking ...
12&12
Step Four, p.46
12.
Even before our
drinking got bad and
people began to
cut us off,
nearly all of us
suffered the
feeling that we didn't
quite belong.
13.
But it is from our
twisted relations with
family,
friends, and
society at
large that
many of us have
suffered the most.
14.
When, with
God's
help, we
calmly accepted our
lot, then we
found we could
live at
peace with
ourselves and
show others who
still suffered the
same fears that they could
get over them, too.
15.
For this
reason, some
very good causes and all
connected with them
suffered
unjust criticism from
A.A. groups.
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