From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... despairing alcoholics
as they could.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
2.
... despairing appeal:
"Doctor, I cannot go on ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
3.
... despairing, nervous
wreck, had emerged a man ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
From a trembling, despairing, nervous wreck, had emerged a man brimming over with self-reliance and contentment.
4.
... despairing wife
was informed that it would ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My weary and despairing wife was informed that it
would all end with heart failure during delirium tremens, or I
would develop a wet brain, perhaps within a year.
5.
... despairing wives,
the little children; let the ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear
somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
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