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The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that their
compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.
2.
Post-war disillusionment, ever more serious alcoholism, impending
mental and physical collapse, brought him to the
point of self-destruction.
3.
My brother-in-law is a physician, and through his
kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.
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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.
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... mental and
spiritual health and self-respect to ...
BB
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
This self-insurance has resulted in the restoration of physical,
mental and spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of men and women who would be hopelessly down and out without its unique but effective therapy."
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Show him, from your own experience, how the queer
mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of the
will power.
9.
If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor
that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or
dangerous.
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These men were not drinking
to escape; they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control.
13.
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.
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He had but partially recovered from a gastric hemorrhage and seemed to be
a case of pathological
mental deterioration.
16.
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.
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at some
time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.
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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.
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Under these conditions we
can employ our mental faculties with assurance,
for after all God gave us brains to use.
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He got in touch with a prominent psychiatrist
who had undertaken certain responsibilities for the mental health of the community.
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When that happens, our great
natural assets, the instincts, have turned into
physical and mental liabilities.
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Our sponsors declared
that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.
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But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel
with our sound reasoning
there inevitably ran some
insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink.
30.
Being somewhat weakened, and faced with physical and mental readjustment to a life
which knows no alcohol, he may overdo.
31.
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.
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So we shall describe some
of the mental states that precede a relapse into drinking, for obviously
this is the crux of the problem.
34.
The alarming physical
and mental symptoms, the deepening pall of remorse, depression and inferiority that settled
down on our loved ones -- these things terrified and distracted
us.
35.
Then came the night when the physical and mental torture was so hellish I feared I would burst through my window, sash and all.
36.
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.
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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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