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Crucial phase
- Increase in alcohol tolerance.
- Surreptitious drinking.
- Urgency of first drink.
- Unable to discuss problem.
- Drinking bolstered with excuses.
- Persistent remorse.
- Promises and resolutions fail.
- Loss of other interests.
- Work and money troubles.
- Neglect of food.
- Tremors and early morning drinks.
- Occasional relief drinking.
- Constant relief drinking commences.
- Onset of memory blackouts increasing dependence on alcohol.
- Feelings of guilt.
- Memory blackouts increase.
- Decrease of ability to stop drinking when others do so grandiose and aggressive behavior.
- Efforts to control fail repeatedly.
- Tries geographical escapes.
- Family and friends avoided.
- Unreasonable resentments.
- Loss of ordinary willpower.
- Decrease in alcohol tolerance.
Chronic phase
- Physical deterioration.
- Moral deterioration.
- Drinking with inferiors.
- Unable to initiate action vague spiritual desire.
- Complete defeat.
- Obsessive drinking continues in vicious circles.
Rehabilitation
- Learns alcoholism is an illness.
- Stops taking alcohol.
- Assisted in making personal stocktaking.
- Spiritual needs examined.
- Onset of New hope.
- Appreciation of possibilities of new way of life.
- Regular nourishment taken.
- Realistic thinking.
- Natural rest and sleep family and friends appreciate efforts.
- Facts faced with courage.
- Increase of emotional control.
- First step towards economic stability.
- Rationalizations recognized.
- Onset of lengthy intoxications.
- Impaired thinking.
- Indefinable fears.
- Obsession with drinking.
- All alibis exhausted.
- Honest desire for help told addiction can be arrested.
- Meets former addicts normal and happy.
- Right thinking begins.
- Physical overhaul by doctor.
- Star of group therapy.
- Diminishing fears of the unknown future.
- Return of self esteem.
- Desire to escape goes.
- Adjustment to family needs.
- New interests develop.
- Rebirth of ideals.
- Application of real values.
- Confidence of employers.
Contentment in sobriety
- Group therapy and mutual help continue.
- Increasing tolerance.
- Enlightened and interesting way of life.
- Opens up with road ahead to higher levels than ever before.