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The Twelve Steps of Insanity

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  1. We admitted we were powerless over nothing, that we could manage our lives

perfectly and could manage those of anyone else who would allow it.


  1. Came to believe that there was no power greater than ourselves, and that the rest

of the world was insane.


  1. Made a decision to have our loved ones and friends turn their wills and lives over to our care.


  1. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of everyone we knew.


  1. Admitted to the world at large the exact nature of their wrongs.


  1. Were entirely ready to make others straighten up and do right.


  1. Demanded others either "shape up or ship out."


  1. Made a list of anyone who had ever harmed us and became willing to go to any

lengths to get even with them all.


  1. Got direct revenge on such people whenever possible except when to do so would

cost us our own lives or, at the very least, a jail sentence or loss of our sanity.


  1. Continued to take inventory of others, and when they were wrong, promptly and

repeatedly told them about it.


  1.  Sought through nagging to improve our relationships with others since we couldn't understand them anyway, asking only that they do things our way.


  1. Having had a complete physical, emotional and spiritual breakdown as a result of the steps, we tried to blame it on others and to get sympathy and pity in all our affairs.
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