From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HOPELESS occurs
15 times
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1.
... hopeless.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I had to be, for I was hopeless.
2.
... hopeless.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
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
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
The more
hopeless he
feels,
the
better.
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
Even these "
last-
gaspers"
often had
difficulty in
realizing how
hopeless they
actually were.
15.
... hopeless variety.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
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