From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... worse.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
At the time of these occurrences, they may actually have given our emotions violent twists which have since discolored our personalities and altered our lives for the
worse.
2.
... worse.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
3.
... worse.
BB p.68,
How It Works
4.
... worse.
BB p.110,
To Wives
5.
... worse.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
6.
... worse.
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I
would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I
would steal the alcohol
about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.
7.
... worse by
the things he does on ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
8.
... worse, for
we had learned that these ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the
worse, for we had learned
that these troubles could be turned into great values.
9.
... worse, he
begins to use a combination ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.
10.
... worse matters
got.
BB p.66,
How It Works
11.
... worse mess
of trying to live by ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
But we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholics.
12.
... worse, money
was only an urgent requirement ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which
could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.
13.
... worse, never
better.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
14.
... worse relapse.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
15.
... worse stigmatized
than alcoholism, you may not ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
Since I am the victim of another addiction even worse stigmatized than alcoholism, you may not want me among you.
16.
... worse still,
laughter.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
17.
... worse than
he realized.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
18.
... worse than
other people.
BB p.81,
Into Action
19.
... worse than
the distant alcoholics who had ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I who had boasted my generosity that morning
was treating my own club worse than the distant alcoholics who
had forgotten to send the
Foundation their dollars.
20.
... worse than
the last time.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
21.
... worse than
those of anyone else in ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
They comfort the melancholy one by first showing him that his case is not strange or different, that his character defects are probably not more numerous or worse than those of anyone else in A.A.
22.
... worse that
the boys in the fraternity ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
There my drinking became
so much worse that the boys in the fraternity house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.
23.
... worse, the
husband becomes a sick and ...
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.
24.
... worse until
sophomore spring when, after a ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This went from bad to worse until sophomore spring when, after a prolonged period of drinking, I made up my mind that I could not complete my course, so I packed my grip and went South to spend a month on a large farm owned by a friend of mine.
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