Sentences with phrase «most of the alcoholic»

As one put it, «There's some kind of guilt complex with most of us alcoholics.»

Mr Clarke raised the possibility after announcing on Wednesday the acquisition of most of alcoholic beverages giant Diageo's wine division for $ 754 million, with a large chunk of the funds to come from a 2 - for - 15 rights issue to raise $ 486 million.

Most of the alcoholic beverages contain a lot of calories.

Not exact matches

In fact, most of the businesses in the beverage sector — alcoholic and non-alcoholic — are expanding eastward.

In fact, the gospel is at the core of the 10 steps and most alcoholics do wish their illness away.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

I'm a gay Christian alcoholic» might not be the most effective way of cultivating credibility.

Also, as noted, I apologized for those times when my anger got the better of me but in hindsight, I see I was exhibiting signs of prologued trauma and abuse not signs of mental illness (like most of NYC I got tested post 9/11 and there's no signs of mental illness though my childhood growing up with two alcoholic parents who died before I was 18 does produce some triggers that I now know how to manage so I don't let my anger get the better of me).

Rather, most believers in America before 1800 «regarded the moderate use of alcoholic beverages, particularly beer and wine, as a privileged blessing from a gracious God.»

Their most successful campaign was that which finally made the use of alcoholic beverages illegal.

How to understand the alcoholic and what can be done for him rank first and second in the list of problems which prove most puzzling [to religious leaders].

The time when it can be most effective, it should be emphasized, is after the alcoholic is sober for a substantial period of time.

Group therapy is perhaps the most effective type of treatment for the alcoholic aside from AA.

One of the most important aspects of preparation for pastoral counseling of alcoholics is that of determining what resources are available for referral in one's community, and of acquiring firsthand knowledge of these resources.

The alcoholic's inferiority is reduced not by identifying with a powerful authority - figure, but by becoming aware of his «higher and diviner self» which is his most real self.

Most alcoholics seen by the minister require one or more of these forms of specialized help, in addition to pastoral counseling, in order to recover.

Most important, there was general agreement that the goal of total abstinence is the only realistic and humane one in counseling with alcoholics.

Most physicians prefer tranquilizers to the older sedatives of the barbiturate group in treating alcoholics.

This includes most alcoholics, drug addicts, overt and borderline psychotics, those with severe psychosomatic problems, religious fanatics, rabid «positive thinkers,» and those with a protracted history of chronic failure in adult roles (marriage and job).

Through A.A.'s supportive - growth approach nearly 300,000 «hopeless» alcoholics have recovered, most of them with no attempt or need to explore the deep personality conflicts which probably caused the addiction.

Included in the advantages mentioned were the natural entree to the family, confidentiality of relationship, the fact that there are no fees involved, that many people naturally take their problems to their pastor, and, most important, that the minister has the dynamic of the Christian faith and fellowship available for helping the alcoholic.

Most of the ministers reported working closely with AA, and the majority of them had a positive attitude toward the use of psychiatric referral with alcoholics when needed.

«Most of us» alcoholics, kind Patrick H. are yes, concerned with the Self, be it «resentmentations» or Acts of «self pity».

constitutes the largest and most enduring mutual aid - society of recovered alcoholics in human history....

Probably most AAs have never heard of Frank Amos or the Alcoholic Foundation or the Amos Report.

Its most serious expression, however, is in the drinking of alcoholic beverages, with all the train of consequences ensuing therefrom.

Of AA., he says: «Considering Alcoholics Anonymous, for instance, two studies cited by Fingarette that looked at eighteen - month followups of people in AA found that at most, 25 percent of people were still attending meetings, and that among regular AA members, only 22 percent consistently maintained sobrietOf AA., he says: «Considering Alcoholics Anonymous, for instance, two studies cited by Fingarette that looked at eighteen - month followups of people in AA found that at most, 25 percent of people were still attending meetings, and that among regular AA members, only 22 percent consistently maintained sobrietof people in AA found that at most, 25 percent of people were still attending meetings, and that among regular AA members, only 22 percent consistently maintained sobrietof people were still attending meetings, and that among regular AA members, only 22 percent consistently maintained sobriety.

Hence psychologically as well as theologically the «Christianity» of alcoholics is not the Christianity of most other American Christians.

Yet, like so much of the other historical writing of the last twenty - five years, it completely misses the boat when it comes to describing, analyzing, or covering spiritual roots of Alcoholics Anonymous — the movement it most applauds.

Recovering alcoholics are among the most spiritually vibrant Christians I know, and the enthusiasm and commitment they bring to their relationship with Christ contribute greatly to the spiritual health of the churches they attend» (pp. 433 - 34).

The counselor can help to create the conditions under which surrender is most likely to occur by utilizing the methods of «elevating the alcoholic's bottom,» described in the last chapter.

To summarize, the most important factors in the selection of the alcoholic symptom seem to be the availability and attractiveness of alcohol in a particular cultural group.

The most important thing a congregation must give a recovering alcoholic is a sense of acceptance in the fellowship.

Because of the nature of a compulsion — most people including alcoholics think of their pet compulsions as normal — it is difficult for the alcoholic to recognize that his behavior is abnormal.

The fact that so few use alcohol now and, more important, that most of them have established adequate personal lives would seem to give good reason to expect that few, if any, would become alcoholics.

To maximize his counseling effectiveness with alcoholics, the minister should have a clear picture of the style of counseling which has proved to be most functional with alcoholics.

The most effective houses are small (not more than twenty - five clients), have simple rules, maintain an atmosphere of homelike informality, and employ staff counselors who are recovered alcoholics, often former Skid Row - ers.

In counseling aimed at motivating a resistant alcoholic, it is sometimes helpful to point out that loss of control is gradual in most alcoholism and is, therefore, a matter of degree.

Self - help groups (many of which are modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous) represent one of the most hopeful developments in the whole field of contemporary therapeutic groups.

In contrast, most researchers emphasize the heterogeneity of alcoholic personalities.

Most ministers, especially those with downtown churches, are frequently confronted with the perplexing problem of how to deal constructively with the homeless alcoholic who comes to the door.

In most cases, it is not necessary to use such a calculated approach to «withdrawing the props» which have been supporting the alcoholic's denial of reality about his drinking.

Yet probably the most damaging is the learned behavior of covering up and enabling the addictive behavior, as evident in the above - mentioned case of the alcoholic layperson.

The damage to the children varies, depending on a number of factors — the strength of the nonalcoholic parent, the age of the child at the onset of the most destructive phases of the illness, the nature of the relationship with the alcoholic parent, and the social class level of the family.

Various psychological studies have shown that the presence of a mothering figure in his immediate interpersonal world is one of the most characteristic aspects of the alcoholic's picture.

Clearly, drinking alcohol can lead to alcoholism, but it is also clear that most alcoholics have this predisposition from birth, waiting for the first dropper of alcohol - based cough syrup or spoonful of narcotic croup remedy.

One of the most helpful descriptions of the marital problems that beset the alcoholic family after sobriety and how they can be met, is in the Big Book, Chapter 9, entitled «The Family Afterwards.»

As suggested in Chapter 9, the most salutary thing the wife of a drinking alcoholic can do is to «release» him.

If all the troubles in the family of an alcoholic were the direct effects of alcoholism, it would be reasonable to assume that, given a certain period of time after sobriety, most of these troubles would disappear.

In her review of the professional literature on alcoholism and marriage, Margaret Bailey concludes: «Most students of the problem have found in some or all of their cases this interactive pattern of the dependent, inadequate alcoholic male married to a dominating woman who is usually seen as maintaining a semblance of adequacy only at his expense.»