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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
NERVOUSNESS occurs
2 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... nervousness, anger,
worry, depression, jealousy or the ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
In some
circumstances we have
gone out
deliberately to
get
drunk,
feeling
ourselves
justified by
nervousness,
anger,
worry,
depression,
jealousy or the like.
2.
... nervousness in
check.
BB p.109,
To Wives
He sometimes
drinks in the
morning and through the
day
also, to
hold his
nervousness
in
check.
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