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

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DEPRESSION   occurs   12 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... depression.   12&12 p.44, Step Four
We have drunk to drown feelings of fear, frustration, and depression.

2.
... depression.   12&12 p.52, Step Four
The most common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, anger, self-pity, and depression.

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   Go to page 106 in the Big Book
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   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.

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   Go to page 127 in the Big Book
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   Display entire 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   Go to page 133 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 52 in the Big Book
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?


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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