From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... depression.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
2.
... depression.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
3.
... depression?
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
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?
4.
... depression; and
how, unconsciously seeking relief, they ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety,
remorse, and depression;
and how, unconsciously seeking relief, they would
sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to
conceal.
5.
... depression and
inferiority that settled down on ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
The alarming physical
and mental symptoms, the
deepening pall of remorse, depression and inferiority that settled down on our loved ones -- these things terrified and distracted us.
6.
... depression, jealousy
or the like.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by
nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
7.
... depression, or
anxiety -- in other words, to ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
To those of us who have hitherto known only excitement, depression, or
anxiety -- in other words, to all of us -- this newfound peace is a priceless gift.
8.
... depression, or
apathy, which will disappear when ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
If they sense these things,
they will not take so seriously his periods of
crankiness, depression,
or apathy, which will disappear when there is tolerance, love, and spiritual understanding.
9.
... depression, self-pity
oozing from every pore, and ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
What happens when we wallow in depression, self-pity oozing from every pore, and inflict that upon those about us?
10.
... depression so
great, that we felt his ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
His alcoholic problem
was so complex, and his depression so great, that we felt his only hope would be through what we then called
"moral psychology," and
we doubted if even that
would have any effect.
11.
... depression vanish
in a twinkling.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not
often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.
12.
... depression, we
couldn't make a living, we ...
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?
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