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... mental, and
emotional levels is a fact ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
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.
... mental and
physical collapse, brought him to ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Post-war disillusionment, ever
more serious alcoholism, impending
mental and physical collapse, brought him to
the point of self-destruction.
3.
... mental and
physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
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.
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.
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."
7.
... mental blank
spots.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... mental condition
surrounding that first drink prevents ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
Show him, from your own experience, how the queer
mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of
the will power.
9.
... mental condition
too abnormal or dangerous.
BB p.114,
To Wives
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.
10.
... mental condition
were unusually good.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
11.
... mental control.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
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
15.
... mental deterioration.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
He had but partially recovered from a gastric
hemorrhage and seemed
to be a case of pathological mental deterioration.
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
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.
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
21.
... mental goose-flesh
that used to bring on!
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
22.
... mental health.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
23.
... mental health
of the community.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
He got in touch with a prominent psychiatrist who had undertaken certain responsibilities for the mental health of the community.
24.
... mental inconsistencies
with some of his own.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
25.
... mental liabilities.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
When that happens, our great natural assets, the instincts,
have turned into physical and mental liabilities.
26.
... mental obsession
so subtly powerful that no ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Our sponsors declared
that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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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