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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

Carrying the message of hope from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Posting passages once daily from the Fourth Edition. The Road of Happy Destiny Joined January 2015
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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

14 hours ago

The next three years saw me in sanitariums, once in a ten day coma, from which I very nearly did not recover, in and out of hospitals or confined at home with day and night nurses. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 days ago

I could no longer gauge my capacity and it might be the second or the tenth drink that would erase my consciousness. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

3 days ago

Alone in the relative safety of my home because I knew I dare not risk the danger of blacking out in some public place or at the wheel of a car. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

5 days ago

Needless to say, this was not pleasurable drinking. I had long since given up any pretense of the "social" cocktail hour. This was drinking in sheer desperation, alone and locked behind my own door. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

6 days ago

I would hang on to #sobriety for short intervals, but always there would come the tide of an overpowering necessity to drink and, as I was engulfed in it, I felt such a sense of panic that I really believed I would die if I didn't get that drink inside. #recovery #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

7 days ago

And still by the time I was thirty years old I was being pushed around with a compulsion to drink that was completely beyond my control. I couldn't stop drinking. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

a week ago

My drinking habits increased in spite of my struggle for control. I tried the beer diet, the wine diet, timing, measuring, and spacing of drinks. I tried them mixed, unmixed, drinking only when gay, only when depressed. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

a week ago

Between the ages of twenty-five and thirty I tried everything. I moved a thousand miles away from home to Chicago and a new environment. I studied art; I desperately endeavored to create an interest in many things, in a new place among new people. Nothing worked. #sobriety #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

a week ago

Of course the doctors found nothing. Just an unstable woman, undisciplined, poorly adjusted and filled with nameless fears. Most of them prescribed sedatives and advised rest and moderation. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

At twenty-five I had developed an #alcoholic problem. I began making the rounds of the doctors in the hope that one of them might find some cure for my accumulating ailments, preferably something that could be removed surgically. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

I was married at twenty, had two children and was divorced at twenty-three. My broken home and broken heart fanned my smoldering self-pity into a fair-sized bonfire and this kept me well supplied with reasons for having another drink, and then another. #recovery #sobriety #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

It wasn't long before any party without drinks was a dud for me. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

I experienced some of the pleasure of social drinking when I was sixteen. I definitely liked it, everything about it, the taste, the effects; and I realize now that a drink did something for me or to me that was different from the way it affected others. #recovery #sobriety #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

I had the best schools, summer camps, resort vacations and travel. Every reasonable desire was possible of attainment for me. I was strong and healthy and quite athletic. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

Nor could I blame my dilemma on my childhood environment. I couldn't have chosen more loving and conscientious parents. I was given every advantage in a well ordered home. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

2 weeks ago

To be sure, this had been a dizzy and confused interval, but most everyone else I knew had emerged from it with both feet on the ground and a fair amount of adult maturity. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #12Steps #BigBook #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

3 weeks ago

(2/2) That age of the flapper and the "It" girl, speakeasies and the hip flask, the boyish bob and the drugstore cowboy, John Held Jr. and F. Scott Fitzgerald, all generously sprinkled with a patent pseudo-sophistication. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

3 weeks ago

(1/2) I was a product of the post-war prohibition era of the roaring '20's.

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

3 weeks ago

How I had arrived at this tragic impasse I could not have explained to anyone. I was thirty-three years old and my life was spent. I was caught in a cycle of alcohol and sedation that was proving inescapable and consciousness had become intolerable. #recovery #sobriety #odaat #aa

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Friend of Bill W. @BigBookMessage

3 weeks ago

A little more than fifteen years ago, through a long and calamitous series of shattering experiences, I found myself being helplessly propelled toward total destruction. I was without power to change the course my life had taken. #recovery #sobriety #alcohol #alcoholic #odaat #aa

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