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... caused at
home.
12&12
Step Eight, p.81
When we take such personality traits as
these into shop, office, and
the society of our fellows, they can do damage almost as extensive as that
we have caused at home.
2.
... caused by
the action of alcohol on ...
BB
To Employers, p.140
Can it be appreciated that he has been a victim of crooked thinking, directly caused by the action of alcohol on his brain?
3.
... caused by
the behavior of other people ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
Our present anxieties
and troubles, we cry, are
caused by the behavior of other people -- people who really need a moral inventory.
4.
... caused by
the behavior of others, why ...
12&12
Step Four, p.52
Or, if my disturbance was seemingly caused by the behavior of others, why do I lack the ability to accept conditions I cannot change?
5.
... caused chiefly
by excessive drinking.
12&12
Step Four, p.45
We shall claim that our serious character defects, if we think we have any at all, have been caused chiefly by excessive drinking.
6.
... caused him.
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.
7.
... caused it.
12&12
Step Four, p.47
We learned that if we were seriously disturbed, our
first need was to quiet that disturbance, regardless of who or what we thought caused it.
8.
... caused many
a rebellious alcoholic to conclude ...
12&12
Step Three, p.38
This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic to
conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging.
9.
... caused me
anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
12&12
Step Four, p.52
Questioning directed
to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
10.
... caused others
and ourselves.
12&12
Step Four, p.43
11.
... caused our
failure.
BB
How It Works, p.64
12.
... caused the
people we had loved most ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
13.
... caused us
more trouble than holding back ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
14.
... caused us
to play the big shot ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.
15.
... caused you,
being careful not to moralize ...
BB
Working With Others, p.91
If he is in a serious mood dwell on the troubles liquor has caused you, being careful not to moralize or lecture.
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