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... condition.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
2.
... condition.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... condition.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
4.
... condition.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
5.
... condition.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
They piled on me heaps of evidence to the effect that
an alcoholic mentality, such as I had exhibited in Washington, was a hopeless condition.
6.
... condition.
BB p.85,
Into Action
7.
... condition.
BB p.85,
Into Action
8.
... condition.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
9.
... condition, and
his religious leanings.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Get an idea of his behavior, his problems,
his background, the seriousness of his condition, and his religious leanings.
10.
... condition, brought
to me.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
11.
... condition do
we criticize such a person ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
12.
... condition, he
has become very curious to ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Even though your protégé may not have entirely admitted his
condition, he has become very curious to know how you got well.
13.
... condition is
being blotted out ... Historians may ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
14.
... condition is
that he trust in God ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
15.
... condition, it
is better to risk it.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
The family may object to
this, but unless he is in a dangerous physical condition, it is better to risk it.
16.
... condition may
come to him.
BB p.144,
To Employers
If the book is read the moment the patient is able, while acutely depressed, realization of his condition may come to him.
17.
... condition of
groveling despair.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we
began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.
18.
... condition of
mind and body.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Doubtless you are curious to discover how
and why, in the face of expert opinion to the contrary, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind and body.
19.
... condition or
this book only when he ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
20.
... condition persists.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
21.
... condition surrounding
that first drink prevents normal ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
Show him, from your own experience, how the queer
mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of
the will power.
22.
... condition that
he can think straight and ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
Your man will fare better if placed in such physical condition that he
can think straight and no longer craves liquor.
23.
... condition too
abnormal or dangerous.
BB p.114,
To Wives
If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or dangerous.
24.
... condition was.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
It did not matter too much
what our material condition was, but it did matter
what our spiritual condition was.
25.
... condition was,
but it did matter what ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
It did not matter too much
what our material condition was, but it did matter
what our spiritual condition was.
26.
... condition was
relieved, as in fact it ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious
feeling that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be.
27.
... condition were
unusually good.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
28.
... condition, whatever
that happens to be.
BB p.144,
To Employers
We hope the doctor will tell the patient the truth about his
condition, whatever that
happens to be.
29.
... condition which,
in ordinary life, would produce ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
This is a condition which, in ordinary life, would produce untold grief; there might be scandalous gossip, laughter at the expense of
other people, and a tendency to take advantage of intimate information.
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