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We admitted we
were powerless over our affective disorder-- that our lives had become
unmanageable.
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Came to believe
that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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Made a decision to
turn our will and our lives over to the care of the God of our understanding.
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Made a searching
and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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Admitted to God,
to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Were entirely
ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
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Humbly asked God
to remove our shortcomings.
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Made a list of all
persons we have harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
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Made direct amends
to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or
others.
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Continued to take
personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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Sought through
prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the God of our
understanding, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power
to carry that out.
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Having had a
spiritual awakening as a result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message
to persons with affective disorder and to practice these principles in all our
affairs.
