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12 Steps

Postby Oliveira » Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:49 pm

Has anybody here done a version of 12 Steps adapted to mental illness?

Step 1: We admitted we are powerless over our condition: that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2: We came to believe that a Power Greater Than Ourselves can restore us to normalcy.
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our care and our lives over to our Higher Power.
Step 4: We made a searching and fearless personal inventory of ourselves.
Step 5: Admitted the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6: We are ready to have our character defects removed.
Step 7: Humbly asked our Higher Power to "remove our shortcomings".
Step 8: We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9: Made direct amends to such people except when to do so would injure others.
Step 10: We continued to take a personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only of knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry it out.
Step 12: We use what we have learned to help others.
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Re: 12 Steps

Postby Ian Reynir » Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:58 pm

I was just thinking about the AA program recently as you can see on the following thread. anti-psych/topic105655.html As mentioned on that thread, there are already dual diagnosis programs based on the AA program.

As for the 12 steps that you listed, I dissagree with steps 1-3, 7, and 11 (but keeping meditations). Everything else is good with me (7 out of 12).
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