From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sick.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
The wars which had been fought, the burnings and chicanery that religious dispute had facilitated, made me sick.
2.
... sick.
BB p.64,
How It Works
From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we
have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been
spiritually sick.
3.
... sick.
BB p.66,
How It Works
4.
... sick.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
5.
... sick.
BB p.141,
To Employers
6.
... sick.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
7.
... sick and
irresponsible child who needs to ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
As matters get worse, the husband becomes a sick and irresponsible child who
needs to be looked after and extricated from
endless scrapes and impasses.
8.
... sick, and
panic takes over when he ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
His financial insecurity worries him
sick, and panic takes over when he thinks of all the bridges to
safety that alcohol burned behind him.
9.
... sick brother?
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
10.
... sick emotions.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
11.
... sick employees.
BB p.139,
To Employers
To me, this incident illustrates lack of understanding as to what really ails the alcoholic, and lack of knowledge as to what part employers might profitably take in salvaging their sick employees.
12.
... sick friend.
BB p.67,
How It Works
We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we
would cheerfully grant
a sick friend.
13.
... sick man.
BB p.67,
How It Works
14.
... sick man.
BB p.147,
To Employers
15.
... sick man
from temptation is doomed to ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the
sick man from temptation is doomed to
failure.
16.
... sick man,
"the very image.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
17.
... sick men.
BB p.107,
To Wives
18.
... sick ones
and fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
They will approach still other sick ones and fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous
may spring up in each city and hamlet, havens for those who must find a way out.
19.
... sick ones,
or none at all.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
20.
... sick or
wayward child.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
21.
... sick people.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We seriously thought
of rewriting the laws of
the land, and having it declared that alcoholics are sick people.
22.
... sick people.
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and
good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.
23.
... sick people,
deranged men.
BB p.149,
To Employers
24.
... sick people
that way.
BB p.67,
How It Works
25.
... sick person.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
26.
... sick person.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
27.
... sick person
and should be treated accordingly.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
28.
... sick person,
you will have created a ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
When you have carefully explained to such people that he is a sick person, you will have created a new atmosphere.
29.
... sick, there
is unremitting danger to our ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
For us, if we neglect those who are still sick, there is unremitting danger to our own lives and sanity.
30.
... sick too.
BB p.67,
How It Works
Though we did not like their
symptoms and the way these
disturbed us, they, like
ourselves, were sick too.
31.
... sick, unreasonable
person.
BB p.108,
To Wives
32.
... sick, when
as a matter of fact ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Frequently, you have felt obliged to tell your husband's employer and his friends
that he was sick, when as a matter of fact he was tight.
33.
... sick, which
was much nearer the truth ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
34.
... sick, you
might jump to the conclusion ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
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