Page: 39Step we are on: Step One
Subject: Mental Condition, Fred the Accountant, Insanity, Two Fold illness, Nervous, Pre-lapse, Relapse, Normal vs. Abnormal
Good morning. I hope everyone had a great weekend despite the heat. Let's get right into Fred's case.
Notice how all of these Step One 'vignettes' in these first forty-three pages of this Book ALL have one subject in common; how they carried the message (Twelve Stepping) to other alcoholics - in what we today call a "12 step call".
That is what all of these stories entail.
When had the A.A.’s first seen Fred?
We first saw Fred about a year ago
- Where did they meet him?
in a hospital
- Why did he say he was there?
where he had gone to recover from a bad case of jitters.
Jitter – Extreme nervousness, state of excitability.
The Winston Simplified Dictionary – 1938Sounds like Fred has something in common with Jim the Salesman who also suffered from a "nervous disposition". Have you ever been characterized as "nervous".
- Had he experienced this before?
It was his first experience of this kind,
- How did he feel about it?
and he was much ashamed of it.
Question: Were feelings of 'shame' ever enough to get you to stop?
TOMORROW
- Could he admit that he was an alcoholic?
- What rationalization did he come up with?
- What did the doctor try to impress on him?
- How were his spirits?
- What decision did he make?
- Did he have any doubt that he could manage that decision?
- Was he apparently successful at every other area of his life?
Peace & Love,
Danny S – RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic
http://recoveredalcoholic.blogspot.com
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