The Twelve Steps of Insanity
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The Twelve Steps of Insanity
I bought this on a bookmark today....love it!
The Twelve Steps of Insanity
1. We admitted we were powerless over nothing - that we could manage our lives perfectly and those of anyone else who would allow me.
2. Came to believe there was no power greater than ourselves, and the rest of the world was insane.
3. Made a decision to have our loved ones and friends turn their wills and lives over to our care even though they couldn't understand us at all.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of everyone we knew.
5. Admitted to the whole world at large the exact nature of everyone else's wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to make others straighten up and do right.
7. Demanded others to either "shape up or ship out."
8. Made a list of all persons who had harmed us and became willing to go to any length to get even with them all.
9. Got direct revenge on such people wherever possible except when to do so would cost us our own lives or, at the very least, a jail sentence.
10. Continued to take the inventory of others, and when they were wrong, promptly and repeatedly told them about it.
11. Sought through bitching and nagging to improve our relations with others as we couldn't understand them at all, asking only that they knuckle under and do things our way.
12. Having had a complete physical, emotional, spiritual breakdown as the result of these steps, we tried to blame it on others and to get sympathy and pity in all our affairs
The Twelve Steps of Insanity
1. We admitted we were powerless over nothing - that we could manage our lives perfectly and those of anyone else who would allow me.
2. Came to believe there was no power greater than ourselves, and the rest of the world was insane.
3. Made a decision to have our loved ones and friends turn their wills and lives over to our care even though they couldn't understand us at all.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of everyone we knew.
5. Admitted to the whole world at large the exact nature of everyone else's wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to make others straighten up and do right.
7. Demanded others to either "shape up or ship out."
8. Made a list of all persons who had harmed us and became willing to go to any length to get even with them all.
9. Got direct revenge on such people wherever possible except when to do so would cost us our own lives or, at the very least, a jail sentence.
10. Continued to take the inventory of others, and when they were wrong, promptly and repeatedly told them about it.
11. Sought through bitching and nagging to improve our relations with others as we couldn't understand them at all, asking only that they knuckle under and do things our way.
12. Having had a complete physical, emotional, spiritual breakdown as the result of these steps, we tried to blame it on others and to get sympathy and pity in all our affairs
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I was given that at my second meeting of AlAnon by my new AlAnon Sponsor (who was a very good and dear friend of my AA Sponsor). And yes it was on a bookmark, and I STILL HAVE IT.
Thanks for posting it here.
Love and hugs,
Thanks for posting it here.
Love and hugs,
Recovering Codependant
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Liverpool, Great Britain
Posts: 1,335
I believe I graduated step 12 when I was between 19-21yrs old.
Baffles me now that I once lived life by these steps and actually believed that I was doing good. I could not fathom why I was continually p**sd with the world and everyone in it, except for the absolute fact that they were all a bunch of a holes and wishing they would leave my world the f**k alone. I was always so angry!
I needed this reminder why I am working on me and what I could go back to if I stop.
Thanks
Lily xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Baffles me now that I once lived life by these steps and actually believed that I was doing good. I could not fathom why I was continually p**sd with the world and everyone in it, except for the absolute fact that they were all a bunch of a holes and wishing they would leave my world the f**k alone. I was always so angry!
I needed this reminder why I am working on me and what I could go back to if I stop.
Thanks
Lily xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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