September 20, 2002

• The 12 Steps for Bipolar Disorder
  As adapted By: Stormy © September 3, 2002

  
  

   

  
  

  1. I admitted I was powerless over Bipolar Disorder - that my life had become   
     unmanageable.

  
  

  2. I came to believe that I needed someone other than myself to help me restore myself to
      good mental health.

  
  

  3. I made a decision to turn my trust over to the care of a professional.

  
  

  4. I made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.

  
  

  5. I admitted to myself and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs while I
     was not receiving treatment and thought I could handle my illness on my own.

  
  

  6. I was entirely ready to have a professional remove all these defects of character and
      admitted that I had to help myself in that process.

  
  

  7. I humbly asked myself as well as my loved ones to help me remove my shortcomings.

  
  

  8. I made a list of all persons I had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them
      all.

  
  

  9. I made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would
      injure them or others.

  
  

  10. I continued to take personal inventory and when I was wrong, I promptly admitted it.

  
  

  11. I sought through treatment and my own means, to improve my conscious contact with
        my illness as I understood it, asking only for knowledge of wellness for me and the
        power to continue my treatment, even when I felt better.

  12. Having had an awakening as the result of these steps, I tried to carry this message to
        other Bipolar suffers and to practice these principles in all my affairs.

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