THE TWELVE
STEPS OF INSANITY

1. We admitted we were powerless
   over nothing – that we could manage our lives
   perfectly and those of anyone who would allow us.
2. Came to believe that there
   was no power greater than ourselves and the rest of the
   world was insane.
3. Made a decision to have our
   loved ones turn their wills and their 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
   the exact nature of everyone else’s wrongs.
6. We’re entirely ready to
   make others give us the respect we thought we deserved.
7. Demanded others do our will
   because we were always enlightened.
8. Made a list of all persons
   who had harmed us and became willing to go to any lengths
   to get even with them all.
9. Got direct revenge on such
   people wherever 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 told them
    about it.
11. Sought through complaining
    and medication to improve our relations with others as we
    could not understand them at all, asking only that they
    do things 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 our affairs.

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