"mental" in the Big Book

Then a mental fog settled down.

Then came the night when the physical and mental torture was so hellish I feared I would burst through my window, sash and all.

My brother-in-law is a physician, and through his kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.

We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to

His physical and mental condition were unusually good.

We doubt if many of them can do it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.

So we shall describe some of the mental states that precede a relapse into drinking, for obviously this is the crux of the problem.

Here was the threat of commitment, the loss of family and position, to say nothing of that intense mental and physical suffering which drinking always caused him.

But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink.

Then came the hospital with unbearable mental and physical suffering.

I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots.

For most cases, there is virtually no other solution.’’ Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink.

What a state of mental goose-flesh that used to bring on!

Post-war disillusionment, ever more serious alcoholism, impending mental and physical collapse, brought him to the point of self-destruction.

There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.

Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use.

Show him the mental twist which leads to the first drink of a spree.

He will match your mental inconsistencies with some of his own.

Show him, from your own experience, how the queer mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of the will power.

The alarming physical and mental symptoms, the deepening pall of remorse, depression and inferiority that settled down on our loved ones—

If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or dangerous.

We, who have recovered from serious drinking, are miracles of mental health.

Being somewhat weakened, and faced with physical and mental readjustment to a life which knows no alcohol, he may overdo.

There was much talk about the mental state preceding the first drink.

He got in touch with a prominent psychiatrist who had undertaken certain responsibilities for the mental health of the community.