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.