From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... control.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
2.
... control.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
3.
... control.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
He has lost control.
4.
... control.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
5.
... control.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
6.
... control.
BB p.117,
To Wives
7.
... control.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
8.
... control.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
These men were not drinking
to escape; they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control.
9.
... control, and
continue to fail, our suffering ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
As we redouble our efforts at control, and continue to fail, our suffering becomes acute and constant.
10.
... control and
enjoy his drinking is the ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.
11.
... control, but
such intervals -- usually brief -- were ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
All of us felt at times that
we were regaining control, but such intervals -- usually brief -- were inevitably
followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.
12.
... control, for
he is unable to stay ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
Two: Your husband is showing lack of control, for he is unable to stay on the water wagon even when he wants to.
13.
... control his
desire for alcohol, the only ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand -- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
14.
... control his
drinking can do the right-about-face ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
If anyone who is showing
inability to control his
drinking can do the right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off
to him.
15.
... control his
drinking, tell him that possibly ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
If he sticks to the idea
that he can still control his
drinking, tell him that possibly he can -- if he is not too alcoholic.
16.
... control of
his liquor consumption, once he ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may
or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of
his drinking career he
begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.
17.
... control of
his liquor situation, he went ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Some time later, and just as he thought he was getting control of his liquor situation, he went on a roaring bender.
18.
... control our
drinking.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
19.
... control our
drinking just because we were ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control
our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that
we were in full flight from
reality, or were outright mental defectives.
20.
... control our
emotional natures, we were a ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we
had a feeling of uselessness, we were full
of fear, we were unhappy,
we couldn't seem to be of real
help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
21.
... control our
inner lives and guarantee us ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
We are certain that our intelligence, backed by
willpower, can rightly
control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in.
22.
... control over
the amount you take, you ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit
entirely, or if when drinking, you have little
control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
23.
... control, that
our drinking even then was ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show
that years before we realized it we were out of
control, that our drinking
even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a
fatal progression.
24.
... control the
situation, and there were periods ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Nevertheless, I still
thought I could control the
situation, and there were periods of sobriety which
renewed my wife's hope.
25.
... control whatever.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
26.
... control whatever
over alcohol.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
27.
... control, which
led in time to pitiful ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
All of us felt at times that
we were regaining control, but such intervals -- usually brief -- were inevitably
followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.
28.
... control would
enable us to do it.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it.
29.
... control your
drinking.
BB p.139,
To Employers
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