Bill W. — AA Meeting (Unknown)

RS-G080 · CLASSIC ERA · AA · UNKNOWN

Bill Wilson

AA Meeting · Unknown
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SpeakerBill Wilson
EventAA Meeting
LocationUnknown
YearUnknown
EraClassic Era
FellowshipAA
Duration17:09
RS NumberRS-G080
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The next speaker is going to comment on some of these things and give us some quite interesting case histories. As he sees it, he must of necessity remain very anonymous, so his initials are Bill Wilson. I must first assure you that I speak with extreme diffidence, layman that I am on such highly technical matters. I became interested in this because I had known Abe and Humphrey for about ten years and just an ordinary amount of compassion made me increase the interest as the prospect of doing something for serious cases unfolded. Also, the general thesis that SCTSE and the underlying situation might be organic in its causation was fascinating. However, I did nothing about it except four years ago I began to massively use material and at that time I was suffering from extreme exhaustion, anxiety seizures. I'd had a history of depression since AA that ran from 43 to 55. I never surfaced. Two or three years were suicidal. In 55 the depression left and however this state of exhaustion went on. So I began timidly at first about four years ago with a gram a day and a gram and a half a day. About two years ago I went up to three grams and then I've had a very marked improvement ever since, although my age bracket is around 71. Wallace has tried this for a couple of years and the general tonic effect has been fine. Well, these are rather trivial observations. Now let's come to something that are less trivial. As a kindred sufferer in depression and because of my position in AA, my mail is constantly full of people who say I've got this ungodly depression, I read your piece in the grapevine about yours, I'm ready to jump out the window and I get slews of this mail. So when it appeared, at least to me, about two years ago that the HAAS EWI test plus the chemical test had begun to uncover a vast underlying area possibly related to schizophrenia and doubtless of a toxic origin. And when Abe made it clear to me that nicotinic acid had been massively given by Kauffman beginning in 41, on this he reported in 55, he was a joint doctor dealing with arthritis largely, and he had observed no untoward side effects and his people were on it one to four…

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