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1.
... mental, and
emotional levels is a fact ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
2.
... mental and
physical collapse, brought him to ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
3.
... mental and
physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
4.
... mental and
physical suffering.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
5.
... mental and
physical suffering which drinking always ...
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
Here was the
threat of
commitment, the
loss of
family and
position, to say
nothing of that
intense
mental and
physical suffering which
drinking
always
caused him.
6.
... mental and
spiritual health and self-respect to ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
7.
... mental blank
spots.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
I saw that will
power and
self-
knowledge would not
help in those
strange mental blank spots.
8.
... mental condition
surrounding that first drink prevents ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
9.
... mental condition
too abnormal or dangerous.
BB p.114,
To Wives
10.
... mental condition
were unusually good.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
11.
... mental control.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I do not
hold with those who
believe that
alcoholism
is
entirely a
problem
of
mental control.
12.
... mental control.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
These
men were not
drinking
to
escape; they were
drinking to
overcome a
craving beyond their
mental control.
13.
... mental defectives.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
It did not
satisfy us to be told that we could not
control our
drinking
just because we were
maladjusted to
life, that we were in
full flight from
reality, or were
outright mental defectives.
14.
... mental defense
against the first drink.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Once more: The
alcoholic at
certain times has no
effective mental defense against the
first drink.
15.
... mental deterioration.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
16.
... mental disorders,
but many of them do ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
There are those, too, who
suffer from
grave emotional and
mental disorders, but many of
them do
recover if they have the
capacity to be
honest.
17.
... mental, emotional,
and physical.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
18.
... mental, emotional,
or spiritual damage to people.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
To
define the
word "
harm" in a
practical way, we
might call it the
result of
instincts in
collision,
which
cause physical,
mental,
emotional, or
spiritual damage to
people.
19.
... mental faculties
with assurance, for after all ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
Under these
conditions we can
employ our
mental faculties with
assurance, for after all
God
gave us
brains to use.
20.
... mental fog
settled down.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
Then a
mental fog settled down.
21.
... mental goose-flesh
that used to bring on!
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
What a
state of
mental goose-
flesh that used to bring
on!
22.
... mental health.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
We, who have
recovered from
serious drinking, are
miracles of
mental health.
23.
... mental health
of the community.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
24.
... mental inconsistencies
with some of his own.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
He will
match your
mental inconsistencies with some of his
own.
25.
... mental liabilities.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
26.
... mental obsession
so subtly powerful that no ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
27.
... mental or
emotional independence is in question, ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
28.
... mental phenomenon
that parallel with our sound ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
29.
... mental readjustment
to a life which knows ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
Being somewhat
weakened, and
faced with
physical and
mental readjustment to
a
life which
knows no
alcohol, he may
overdo.
30.
... mental sense,
which makes it virtually impossible ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We are
equally positive
that once he
takes any
alcohol whatever into his
system, something
happens,
both in the
bodily and
mental sense, which makes it
virtually impossible
for him to
stop.
31.
... mental state
preceding the first drink.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
There was much
talk about the
mental state preceding the
first drink.
32.
... mental states
that precede a relapse into ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
So we shall
describe some of the
mental states that
precede a
relapse into
drinking, for
obviously
this is the
crux of the
problem.
33.
... mental symptoms,
the deepening pall of remorse, ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
34.
... mental torture
was so hellish I feared ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
Then
came the
night when the
physical and
mental torture was so
hellish I
feared I would
burst through
my
window,
sash and all.
35.
... mental twist
already acquired, will find he ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
We
doubt if many of them can do it, because
none will really
want to
stop, and
hardly one of them,
because of the
peculiar mental twist already
acquired, will find he can
win
out.
36.
... mental twist
which leads to the first ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
Show him the
mental twist which
leads to the
first drink of a
spree.
37.
... mental uplift,
I often think of another ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
When I
need a
mental uplift, I often
think of
another
case brought in by a
physician prominent in
New
York.
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