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Questions To Ask Yourself About Alcohoism

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DO YOU BELIEVE ...

(3rd edition Big Book referenced)

DO YOU BELIEVE the Big Book is a text book?

(dust jacket cover xi:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE the Big Book has test questions like other text books?

(20:1 45:1 47:2 53:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE one of the purposes of the Big Book is to show other alcoholics precisely how to recover from their malady?

(xiii:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE the Big Book has some other purpose then to show other alcoholics precisely how to recover from their malady?

(xxiii:1 20:1 45:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE that you can be recovered from the disease of alcoholism?

(title page xiii:1 xxiii:4 17:1 20:1 29:1 45:0 90:3 96:1 113:1 132:2 133:1 146:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE that if you can recovered from alcoholism you are cured of alcoholism?

(85:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE an alcoholic can become immune to alcohol?

(33:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE that you will always be recovering from alcoholism?

(85:0)

DO YOU BELIEVE if the alcoholic problem has been removed, you are still recovering?

(85:0)

DO YOU BELIEVE alcoholism is a three fold disease of the body, mind, spirit?

(xiii 20:1 25:3 27:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE the unmanageability of Step one is the crazy things you did when you were drinking?

(23:1 140:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE the unmanageability of Step one apply's to you today, especially if you have been sober for years?

(23:1 140:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE A.A. promises relief from your unmanageability or does it promise something much better?

(62:3 83:4 87:1 160:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE the problem of alcoholism centers in the body, mind, or spirit?

(23:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE you can learn the skills you need for you to manage your life better?

(45:2 60:4 62:2 143:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE the drinking and the liquor is the problem for the alcoholic or is alcohol only a symptom of the disease?

(62:1 103:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE the remedy for alcoholism comes from treating the alcoholic problem, the drinking?

(64:3 145:1 155:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE the program of A.A. is just going to, setting up and supporting meetings?

(161:2 143:1 145:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE we quit drinking for good, stopping altogether?

(34:2 90:3 142:1,3 181:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE we have to do anything one day at a time?

(16:2 85:1 86:2 100:1 164:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE there is ever a time the program of A.A. suggests we take a drink?

(31:3 32:0)

DO YOU BELIEVE the fellowship of A.A. by itself is enough for you to recover from alcoholism, just don't drink and go to meetings?

(14:0,6 15:0 93:2 98:2 100:1 122:3 128:0)

DO YOU BELIEVE A.A. offers you a substitute for your liquor?

(152:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE that your desire to stop drinking "the only requirement for membership into the A.A. fellowship" is your only requirement to stay sober?

(14:0 24:0 34:2 145:1 146:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE you can stay sober on the basis of self-knowledge?

(39:1 42:0)

DO YOU BELIEVE you believe you can think through the drink?

(37:2,3,4 41:2 43:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE remembering the pain of your last drink could keep you from drinking today?

(xxvii:4 24:1 41:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE you have a choice as to weather you will drink again?

(24:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE you are truly powerless if you still have a choice?

(59 Step 1)

DO YOU BELIEVE you can recover from alcoholism and stay sober on a non-spiritual basis?

(24:4 25:3 135:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE you are suffering from an illness that only a spiritual experience can conquer?

(43:3 44:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE that your only have 2 alternatives are to live spirituality or die an alcoholic death?

(25:3 44:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE that the knowledge which comes from studying the Big Book and applying it can produce a spiritual experience sufficient to stop drinking?

(39:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE in reference to the first 2 Steps, we learn to diagnose ourselves with our own experiences?

(31:3 60:a)

DO YOU BELIEVE alcohol is your greatest enemy?

(64:3 145:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE that drinking alcohol is your problem?

(23:1 64:0 103:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE that your alcoholic problems are of your own making?

(53:2 62:2 103:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE that there is a mental state which precedes the first drink?

(35:0 40:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE that lack of power is your problem?

(45:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE A.A. is supposed to help you control your alcoholic problem?

(30:3 62:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE that A.A. is a selfish program?

(20:0 62:1 62:2 128:0 159:2 161:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE that your very life depends on self-sacrifice and helping others?

(xxiii:4 15:0 20:0 89:3 119:1 124:2 159:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE that you have to place recovery above everything?

(143:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE that once you come into A.A. your disease is arrested so long as you don't drink again?

(30:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE that selfishness and self-centeredness is the root of your troubles?

(62:1,2)

DO YOU BELIEVE there are requirements as part of Step one?

(14:0 25:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE the action of the A.A. program starts in the second Step or the third Step?

(46:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE there are no instructions on taking Steps one and two in the Big Book?

(Step 1 xxii-45:1 30:2; Step 2 45:2-63:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE there are requirements in the Big Book before taking the third Step?

(60:4 62:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE that God is part of your make-up and that deep down, the idea of God is in you?

(55:2,3)

DO YOU BELIEVE when it comes to alcoholism and A.A. that God is everything?

(53:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE that taking the third Step is turning your will and life over to the care of God or is it just a decision to do so?

(59: Step 3)

DO YOU BELIEVE that Step three puts in place a commitment for you to follow through with the rest of the A.A. program?

(63:3 64:0)

DO YOU BELIEVE we need to "easy does it" when we work the Steps?

(28:2 63:4 64:0,1 74:2 75:1 76:3 84:2 85:1 88:3 89:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE that it matters if Step four is a written inventory?

(64:3 65:1 66:3 67:2 68:1 69:1 70:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE A.A. suggests that you stay away from relationships for the first year?

(69:0,1,2,3,4)

DO YOU BELIEVE there are no rules in A.A.?

(74:1 101:3 118:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE you have to work on your character defects in Steps six and seven?

(62:2 76:1,2)

DO YOU BELIEVE the list in Step eight is made when we write Step four?

(76:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE that the way we work Step nine with out family is by keeping sober ourselves?

(82:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE there is a ninth Step prayer we are supposed to say daily as part for amends to the family?

(83:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE Step nine is saying: "I am sorry for my misdeeds of the past"?

(83:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE that because they can't be seen, there is no way to make amends to people who have died?

(83:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE you need to have worked the first nine Steps before you can 12 Step someone?

(94:1, 164:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE Steps ten, eleven and twelve are maintenance Steps?

(84:2 85:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE that by going to meetings you can build up a sobriety bank account which can be tapped into in times of trouble?

(85:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE as an alcoholic in A.A. there are 12 questions you are supposed to answer every day as part of your eleventh Step?

(86:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE you have to be convinced the other person is alcoholic during a 12 Step call?

(92:1 142:2,4)

DO YOU BELIEVE in Step twelve we let the other person call us if he is interested in our help?

(8:4 9:6 13:3 96:1)

DO YOU BELIEVE you can't go on a twelve Step call until you have a year sobriety?

(xvii:0 129:3)

DO YOU BELIEVE A.A. suggests that you have to stay away from people, places and things especially from places where alcohol is being served?

(100:4 101:0,1,3 102:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE it is a good idea to shield yourself from the temptation of liquor?

(101:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE the information presented in the Big Book of A.A. is only a bunch of suggestions?

(19:3 95:4 144:0 164:2)

DO YOU BELIEVE there are no musts in A.A.?

(xvi:1 xxiii:5 xxiv:2 xxvi:2 xxvii:2 10:1 14:1 20:3 21:2 29:3 33:1 43:3 44:3 62:2 66:3 69:3 73:4 74:0,1 75:0 78:2 79:1 80:1 81:0 82:2 83:2 85:1,2 86:1 89:2 90:4 93:2 95:3 99:0,1,2 100:1,4 101:0 111:2 113:1 114:3 115:1,2 117:3 118:2 120:1 127:0,1,2 130:1 135:1 141:4 143:1 144:2 146:3 152:1 153:2 154:4 156:3 159:2 164:1)