"illness" in the Big Book

An illness of this sort—and we have come to believe it an illness—involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can.

But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life.

We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness.

If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer.

Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide— these calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him.

Continue to speak of alcoholism as an illness, a fatal malady.

Had we fully understood the nature of the alcoholic illness, we might have behaved differently.

While you need not discuss your husband at length, you can quietly let your friends know the nature of his illness.

At such moments we forget that alcoholism is an illness over which we could not possibly have had any power.

brother-executive suffered from a serious illness.

At this point, it might be well to explain alcoholism, the illness.