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


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... malady.   BB p.92, Working With Others   Go to page 92 in the Big Book
If you are satisfied that he is a real alcoholic, begin to dwell on the hopeless feature of the malady.


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... malady.   BB p.92, Working With Others   Go to page 92 in the Big Book
Continue to speak of alcoholism as an illness, a fatal malady.

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... malady, alcoholism.   12&12 p.15, Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.


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... malady, and described the symptoms and results ...   BB p.138, To Employers   Go to page 138 in the Big Book
This seemed to me like an opportunity to be helpful, so I spent two hours talking about alcoholism, the malady, and described the symptoms and results as well as I could.


5.
... malady better, you may feel this feeling ...   BB p.139, To Employers   Go to page 139 in the Big Book
Even when you understand the malady better, you may feel this feeling rising.


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... malady has a real hold, they are ...   BB p.23, There Is A Solution   Go to page 23 in the Big Book
Once this malady has a real hold, they are a baffled lot.


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... malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally ...   BB p.64, How It Works   Go to page 64 in the Big Book
When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically.

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... malady," or "That one ought to be ...   12&12 p.104, Step Eleven
We say to ourselves, "This one ought to be cured of his fatal malady," or "That one ought to be relieved of his emotional pain," and we pray for these specific things.

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... malady, that person could never be the ...   12&12 p.23, Step One
It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again.


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... malady with a willingness he had never ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth's description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster.


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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