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... hopeless.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I had to be, for I was hopeless.
2.
... hopeless.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman
of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless.
3.
... hopeless alcoholics
who might be glad to ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands of hopeless alcoholics who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.
4.
... hopeless, apart
from divine help.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were
100% hopeless, apart from divine help.
5.
... hopeless as
Bill.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill.
6.
... hopeless, but
that is not so.
BB p.113,
To Wives
You would suppose that men
in the fourth classification would be quite hopeless, but that is not
so.
7.
... hopeless condition.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
They piled on me heaps of evidence to the effect that
an alcoholic mentality, such as I had exhibited in Washington, was a hopeless
condition.
8.
... hopeless condition
of mind and body.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Doubtless you are curious to discover how
and why, in the face of expert opinion to the contrary, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind and body.
9.
... hopeless feature
of the malady.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
If you are satisfied that he is a real alcoholic, begin to dwell on the hopeless feature of the malady.
10.
... hopeless, had
hidden in a deserted barn ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
The patient had made his own diagnosis, and deciding his situation
hopeless, had hidden in a deserted barn determined to die.
11.
... hopeless; he
could never regain his position ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
In the doctor's judgment
he was utterly hopeless; he
could never regain his position in society and he
would have to place himself under lock and key or hire a bodyguard if he expected to live long.
12.
... hopeless he
feels, the better.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
13.
... hopeless state
of mind and body.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
14.
... hopeless they
actually were.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
15.
... hopeless variety.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
To one who feels he is an atheist or agnostic such an experience seems impossible, but to
continue as he is means
disaster, especially
if he is an alcoholic of the hopeless variety.
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