From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... depressive and
paranoid folks; the deeper the ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
We'd form groups of depressive and paranoid folks; the deeper the neurosis, the better we'd
like it.
2.
... depressive and
the power-driver are personality extremes, ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Of course the depressive and
the power-driver are personality extremes,
types with which A.A. and the
whole world abound.
3.
... depressive has
so often been led to ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This is not a moral inventory at all; it is the very process by which the
depressive has so often been
led to the bottle and extinction.
4.
... depressive side,
we are apt to be ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If temperamentally we are on the depressive side, we are apt to be swamped with guilt and self-loathing.
5.
... depressive type,
who is, perhaps, the least ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the manic-depressive
type, who is, perhaps, the
least understood by his
friends, and about whom a whole chapter could be written.
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