Sentences with phrase «of the alcoholic who»

From that moment plans for spreading the good news to the thousands of alcoholics who could be helped began to take shape.

The fact that half of a group of alcoholics who were in a mental hospital recovered is significant.

For those that say its just a lack of character and discipline, do yourself a favor and google «famous alcoholics»... throughout history there have been hundreds of alcoholics who have had more discipline and character than any of us will ever have.

Of those alcoholics who wish to get well and are emotionally capable of trying our method, 50 percent recover immediately, 25 percent after a few backslides.

This is especially true of the spouse or other relative of the alcoholic who has not recognized the illness.

Since the Emmanuel approach was dependent on professionals, the number of alcoholics who could be helped was quite limited as compared to AA.

What percentage of the alcoholics who receive initial sobriety are able to achieve long - term sobriety through this approach?

One recent study found that 80 % of all alcoholics who recover for a year or more do so on their own, some after being unsuccessfully treated.

The first group did in fact have its share of alcoholics who wandered by; but the «real» alcoholics who «really tried» (as Bill Wilson described them) were a sturdy band of «last gasp» alcoholics who had stayed sober for about two years since A.A.'s founding days of 1935.

The type of alcoholic who makes his living by panhandling has an inner contempt for those he exploits.

In the case of the alcoholic who has not achieved sobriety as yet, the appearance of openness to help may hide an underlying resistance; it may be a passive - aggressive way of defeating the counselor by seeming to agree and comply.

There are examples in the literature of alcoholics who have had long and successful psychoanalytic therapy to remove their major inner conflicts.

Counseling with the spouse or other relatives of an alcoholic who is not yet open to help, is essentially crisis counseling.

However, much that is said will apply to other close relatives of alcoholics who seek help — husbands, parents, grown children, etc..

Many Tories regard the eurozone as the equivalent of alcoholics who would only drink away any cash they were given.

The study subjects were screened to eliminate people who were suffering from alcoholism themselves, so it is not yet known if taste perceptions also differ between children of alcoholics who succumb to the disorder and those who do not.

AA meetings in Houston Al Anon Homepage (Has Links to Meetings) The Al - Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength, and hope, in order to solve their common problems.

The Al - Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength, and hope, in order to solve their common problems.

Not exact matches

His rough upbringing — which includes a revolving door of stepfathers, an alcoholic mother who chased him around with a knife, and a period of homelessness — makes a compelling origin story, a tale he still emotionally unspools at his seminars decades later.

He grew up with a mother who has been described as an abusive alcoholic and a pill user — plus a series of stepfathers and father figures.

The face of addiction a generation ago was that of the working - class or upper - middle - class man, probably long and intimately known to his neighbors, who stood up at an AA meeting in a church basement and bluntly said, «Hi, I'm X, and I'm an alcoholic.»

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.

The gift of God to the recovering alcoholic is «a desire to stop drinking» and people who care enough to be honest about life in the pursuit of sobriety.

My soon to be 2 years of being a «dry drunk», an alcoholic is yes, due my belief in a higher power, perhaps GOD or God or even another human being who has lived thier life alikened my path in life.

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).

Anonymity also casts an atmosphere of clandestineness around the movement which gives it ~ certain added appeal, especially for those alcoholics who are in the «gang» stage of psychosocial development.

Our AA magazine says on its masthead: «Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

Is there anyone who remembers, among church - going profiteers and racketeers, insatiable sexists, alcoholics, torturers, and myriad murderers of human rights - any of the exploiting respectables who remembers the story of Cain and Abel and the piteous words: The voice of thy brothers blood crieth unto me from the ground.

In other words, he should remain in the background, ready to offer advice and assistance but not taking a prominent part in the activities of the one, two or three alcoholics who are trying to get started.

Mary Karr — «completely unbaptised, completely without faith», an «undiluted agnostic», an alcoholic and someone who wants «to eat all of the chocolate and snort all of the cocaine and kiss all the boys», the child of a father who drank himself to death and a mother who married seven times — started going.

Each morning at court the alcoholics who seemed to have the best chance of making a comeback were culled out and turned over to Captain Crocker.

These are low - bottom alcoholics who are constantly in and out of jail as a result of repeated drunkenness - related arrests.

If a minister is known as a militant advocate of prohibition and temperance, and if he treats alcoholism in a moralistic fashion in his public pronouncements, it is likely that some alcoholics who might otherwise seek his help will give him a wide margin.

One of the more outspoken alcoholics I interviewed told of a young minister who apparently tried to use the AA group as a means of obtaining members for his church.

He should see himself as the coordinator of the team in providing help for those alcoholics who come to him, unless there is some other persons or agency which can fulfill this function more efficiently.

Those who advocated total abstinence but did not favor prohibition had seen an average of 3.9 alcoholics per year.

Short - term therapy (a few weeks or months) with a psychiatrist who is knowledgeable in the area of alcoholism can be valuable for many alcoholics who do not require longer - term psychiatric treatment.

Before proceeding, it might be helpful to the reader to indicate more directly the relevance of the next three chapters to the work of the pastor and others who are concerned with helping alcoholics.

In one two - year follow - up study of 178 alcoholics, it was found that 24 percent of those who had received conditioned reflex therapy plus group therapy had improved; 26 percent of those who had had individual therapy plus group therapy had improved;

It is important, as well as comforting, to recall that Giorgio Lolli has said that individuals who are relatively free from basic anxieties can have a beneficial influence on alcoholics, regardless of training.

Even to imply that a rare alcoholic does recover this ability is to foster a dangerous, unrealistic hope for the vast majority of alcoholic counselees, each of whom wants desperately to believe that he is that rare person who may recover control.

In such facilities the «clinical team» consists of various combinations of the following — an internist, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a social worker, and, in a few clinics, a pastoral counselor and a recovered alcoholic who serves as a counselor.

Representative of the many alcoholics who have found their way to AA and happy sobriety through the help of their clergymen is Bob P., who has been sober in AA for several years.

Fortunate is the pastor who lives in one of the 220 areas in the United States and Canada in which alcoholic clinics are available for referral.

In general, those who had had considerable opportunity to work with alcoholics showed a great deal of understanding and realism concerning the psychology and methods of such work.

It was found that those who considered alcoholism primarily or entirely a matter of sickness had seen a yearly average of 9.3 alcoholics, whereas those ministers who considered alcoholism primarily or entirely a matter of sin had seen a yearly average of only 2.3 alcoholics.

Ministers who have attempted to «go it alone» in counseling alcoholics have found their effectiveness to be doubled or even tripled when they learned to utilize all of their community's helping resources to the hilt.

The Washingtonians are a grim reminder to AA's of what might happen to their movement should they ever be diverted from their «one primary purpose... to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.»

Therefore, a minister who holds to the temperance view would seem to be in a position of having to choose whether he will make this a major emphasis or whether he wishes to counsel alcoholics.

The 91 clergymen who returned questionnaires reported having counseled with a total of 353 alcoholics during that year.