personality disorders explained

12 Steps for Kids
From: Kids' Power: Healing Games for
Children of Alcoholics, by Jerry Moe
1. I am powerless over alcohol, drugs,
and other people's behaviour and my
life got real messed up because of it.
The Twelve Steps of Non-
Recovery
Evidently originally called the Twelve
Steps to Insanity From the March 1990
Issue of the ACA Communicator,
published by the Omaha - Council Bluffs
Area Intergroup.
2. I need help. I can't do it alone
anymore.
3. I've made a decision to reach out for
a Power greater than me to help out.
4. I wrote down all of the things that
bother me about myself and others, and
the things that I like too.
5. I shared these with someone I trust
because I don't have to keep them a
secret anymore.
6. My Higher Power helps me with this,
too.
7. The more I trust myself and my
Higher Power, the more I learn to trust
others.
8. I made a list of the people I hurt
and the ways I hurt myself. I can now
forgive myself and others.
9. I talked to these people even if I was
scared to because I knew that it would
help me feel better about myself.
10. I keep on discovering more things
about myself each day and if I hurt
someone, I apologize.
11. When I am patient and pray, I get
closer to my Higher Power, and that
helps me know myself better.
12. By using these steps, I've become a
new person. I don't have to feel alone
anymore, and I can help others.
1. We admitted we were powerless over
nothing, that we would manage our
lives perfectly and those of anyone else
who would allow us to.
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 will and their
lives over to our care, even though they
couldn't understand us.
4 Made a searching moral and immoral
inventory of everyone we knew.
5. Admitted to the whole world 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
whenever possible, except when to do
so would cost us our lives, or at the very
least a jail sentence.
10. Continued to take inventory of
others, and when they were wrong
promptly and repeatedly told them
about it.
11. Sought through complaining and
nagging to improve our relations with
others as we couldn't understand them,
asking only that they knuckle under and
do it our way.
12. Having had a complete physical,
emotional and spiritual breakdown as a
result of these steps, we tried to blame
it on others and to get sympathy and
pity in all of our affairs.
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