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

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ANGER   occurs   19 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... anger?    12&12 p.90,  Step Ten
What about "justifiable" anger?

2.
... anger.    12&12 p.90,  Step Ten
Nor were we ever skillful in separating justified from unjustified anger.


3.
... anger.    BB p.66,  How It Works   Go to page 66 in the Big Book
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.


4.
... anger.    BB p.135,  The Family Afterward   Go to page 135 in the Big Book
His wife is one of those persons who really feels there is something rather sinful about these commodities, so she nagged, and her intolerance finally threw him into a fit of anger.

5.
... anger, a polite form of murder by ...    12&12 p.67,  Step Six
Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too.

6.
... anger also can be very enjoyable.    12&12 p.67,  Step Six
Self-righteous anger also can be very enjoyable.

7.
... anger and fear, society breaking up into ...    12&12 p.37,  Step Three
Everywhere he sees people filled with anger and fear, society breaking up into warring fragments.

8.
... anger and hurt pride might be the ...    12&12 p.59,  Step Five
Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were hiding some of our defects while we blamed others for them.

9.
... anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit ...    12&12 p.103,  Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.

10.
... anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.    12&12 p.88,  Step Ten
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.

11.
... anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.    12&12 p.48,  Step Four
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.

12.
... anger in others.    12&12 p.80,  Step Eight
If our tempers are consistently bad, we arouse anger in others.

13.
... anger, jealousy, and revenge are likely to ...    12&12 p.44,  Step Four
If the pursuit of wealth tramples upon people who happen to be in the way, then anger, jealousy, and revenge are likely to be aroused.

14.
... anger ought to be left to those ...    12&12 p.90,  Step Ten
We have found that justified anger ought to be left to those better qualified to handle it.

15.
... anger, self-pity, and depression.    12&12 p.52,  Step Four
The most common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, anger, self-pity, and depression.

16.
Anger, that occasional luxury of more balanced ...    12&12 p.90,  Step Ten
Anger, that occasional luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely.

17.
... anger we had intended to use on ...    12&12 p.47,  Step Four
We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others.


18.
... anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.    BB p.37,  More About Alcoholism   Go to page 37 in the Big Book
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.


19.
... anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.    BB p.88,  Into Action   Go to page 88 in the Big Book
We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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