1. We admitted we were powerless over nothing - 
 
that we could manage our lives perfectly and those of anyone who would allow us. 
 
 
 
2. We came to believe that there was no power 
 
     greater than ourselves and the rest of  the world was insane. 
 
 
 
3. We 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. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of everyone we knew. 
 
 
 
5. We admitted to the whole world the exact nature of everyone else's wrongs. 
 
 
 
6. We were entirely ready to make others give us the respect we deserved. 
 
 
 
7. We demanded others do our will because we were always enlightened. 
 
 
 
8. We 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. We 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 and repeatedly told  them about it. 
 
 
 
11. Sought through complaining and medication to improve 
 
     our relations with others, as we would  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 
 
     others and to get sympathy and pity in  all our affairs.