Misdiagnosed Anonymous

The Twelve Steps of Misdiagnosed Anonymous

  1. I accept that I am powerless over my situation of medical misdiagnosis, but am not powerless over my life, thoughts, feelings, or needs.
  2. I came to believe a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity and help me live my best life. 
  3. I made a decision to turn my will and my lives over to the care of my Higher Power  as I understood it.
  4. I made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself and my misdiagnosis.
  5. I admitted to my Higher Power, to myself, and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs, including even the false confessions and misplaced trust or claims of credulity that resulted in my misdiagnosis.
  6. I was entirely ready to allow my Higher Power remove all these defects of character.
  7. I humbly asked my Higher Power to remove my shortcomings.
  8. I made a list of all persons I in my stupor of misdiagnosis had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. This includes who were made responsible for giving care to me due to the confusion and burden of my misdiagnosis, even though I am fully capable of taking care of myself. This includes those who I, in my stupor of misdiagnosis, sought to callously misdiagnose in vain and obnoxious attempt to assert power as I then understood power. This includes those parts of my own personality that I, in my stupor of misdiagnosis, have been complicity in trying to shame out of existence.
  9. I made direct amends to those I had harmed wherever possible, except when to do so would injure myself or others, or would risk communicating a false state of mental crisis, or reentering the manic / false repair patterns of misdiagnosis, or would communicate an insensitivity to another person’s right to privacy or autonomy as knowing, thinking, feeling beings. I sought forgiveness and to recover the meaning of forgiveness within myself, and in earnestly seeking amends with myself, was forgiven.
  10. I continued to take personal inventory and when I was wrong promptly admitted it. The more I affirm myself as a logical being, the less vulnerable I am to false confession or misdiagnosis. 
  11. I sought through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with my Higher Power as I understood It, whether that is contact with my Higher Power through will, through image, through sense, or through other members of Misdiagnosed Anonymous.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, I tried to carry this message to others suffering in the situation misdiagnosis, and to practice these principles in all my affairs.