Doctor's Opinion
How many did the doctor say had recovered by 1939?
Over 100
How old was Bill at the end of the War?
22
What availed us nothing?
Half measures
Which step starts this chapter?
"For most _____ _____, drinking means conviviality, companionship, and colorful imagination."
normal folks
As ex-problem drinkers, what of his theory interests us?
That we have an allergy
Besides law, what did Bill study?
Economics and Business
What do we gain as the result of taking these steps?
Return home and find a place to be quiet for an hour and review what we have done.
"Our book is meant to be ______ ______."
suggestive only
Why do alcoholic men and women drink?
"essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol."
An old school friend- Ebby
What is our number one offender?
Resentments
How many steps are contained in this chapter?
7 steps (Steps 5-11)
Who is the one being helped in this chapter?
Dr. Bob
"Unless the alcoholic can experience an entire _______ there is very little hope of his/her recovery"
psychic change
What must we be willing to believe?
a Power greater than ourselves.
How far back do we go in listing those we resent?
Our whole life
"Faith ____ ____ is dead"
without works
"It is a _______ in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom, and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we find the _____, and so will you."
fellowship
Who gave Alcoholics Anonymous this "opinion" of alcoholism?
What must work in and through us?
Example:
"__________ has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish"
Faith
What do we read in this book over and over?
Faith did for us what we could not do for ourselves
"When we retire at night...." what are the 4 main things we have to look at?
Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest, and/or afraid
What are the "hideous" Four Horsemen
Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, and Dispair