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Hello, my name is Jake and I'm on Step 5 of Russel Brand's 12 Step Program. In this step I'm supposed to share with someone who has undertaken a program like this. If anyone is interested in helping me, I'd like to speak on Discord, but am open to suggestions. Thank You in advance.

Edit: To elaborate, I'm incredibly sentimental and have a history of depression, which has motivated marijuana abuse. I've also engaged in meditation to help alleviate my ego.

Edit #2: I've received the assistance I asked for and have been opened to a new line of thinking, but if anyone else would like to help and talk over the phone or discord, I'm open to further incite.

I've decided to take it upon me to give myself a 12 step program. There are no groups or organisations that I know of near me, but I have a fair grasp of what it's all about. I don't have any ONE addiction, but I recognise that every time I do drugs, every time I drink, every time I binge in front of the TV or scroll on my phone for hours, that what I am really addicted to is the dopamine release caused by escapism.

Step 1: I have reluctantly admitted that I am powerless over my addiction.

Step 2: I have come to believe that a power greater than my lone self can restore my sanity.

Step 3: I have made a decision to turn my will and my life over to God, as I understand God.

Here is where it all kind of blurs a little for me. I believe in God. I don't believe in any founded or funded religion. I believe that beyond the four dimensions our flesh body can perceive and travel through, there is something greater than us. I believe we are God in our world. And if I had anyone to go to, they would be God with me and support me, but I don't. So my perception of God is that we are our own highest power with the responsibility to be the best version of ourselves we can be. And I take that responsibility seriously. I don't quite fathom how I, as my own highest power, can willingly call myself powerless when I know that it is within myself I must find the strength to be the best version of me I can become. Any advice?

I am listening to Russell Brand's Recovery on audio book, where he explains the path through the 12 steps in Great detail. I've gotten to step 4, and was asked to make a fearless moral inventory of myself. I was asked to write and fill in the blanks; I resent <...> because <...>. This affects my <...> etcetera.

I have spent the last ten years trying on and off to work on my mental health on my own accord. And what I noticed was that I have already forgiven my father for neglecting me, I have forgiven my stepdad for beating me, I have forgiven the institutions for failing me - because I know full and well that everyone I have ever been in contact with is a product of the generations before them and it was never in their periphery to see the world any other way than they did. It wasn't their fault.

The only person I resent is myself, for STILL not being the man I'm supposed to be. How does this translate into step 4?

My therapist suggested that I join a 12 step program yesterday. I have no idea what I'm doing.

I have narcissistic abuse syndrome and am mildly co- dependAnt. Mildly because I am about half- way out of the abusive situation. I no longer live with my abuser. My therapist said I use him as if he were a drug to me so she suggested a 12 step program. I'm a beginner so please be patient with me. I have no idea where to even start. I joined AA but not sure if I got in that group. Please, if you have any advice or suggestions of another 12 step sub it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Edit: Do I need to purchase a book? Or a workbook? I don't even know what the twelve steps are so starting from the beginning like a baby. The serenity prayer is the only thing I'm familiar with as far as 12 step programs.

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I'm sure being a colossal failure is something the downtrodden is used to. I wasn't some bum under a bridge. I'm concerned that may be my future.

Like most alcoholics, my fight game is strong and I'm a womanizer. I'm starting to bum money from strangers in the internet. I've got a hit Twitch show where I pimp out my wife. I was a big deal in radio. Just call me Bort.

I have a hard time taking the 1st step, until this morning. When my wife and I woke from our cum induced coma, I couldn't believe how far we had fallen. Our mantra is Live to Win. We're not winning. My severance pay is gone from being kicked off the biggest radio show in history. Mega Dildos.

I'm powerless over my wife, Kate. She boxes and works out. She humiliates me in front of other men. Often, I take my rage out on my paying subscribers; the marks (suckers) who fund my debauchery. I'm not ready to quit the meth or the Busch Lite. I'm not a square.

I am ready to take the first step in overcoming cuckoldry. When Kate banged Steve last night she didn't even leave me a crumb. Normally, she tugs on my soft pud. Last night nothing. In fact, she made it worse. Steve and Kate flirted for hours right in front of me.

My name is Bort and I am a cuckold.

Need some help! I'm not sure whether in my inventory of resentments, I should include resentments against myself? Would help to know as there is quite a few. Thanks

Is my sponsor going to role his eyes if I add David Beniof to my list of resentments?

Hi everyone,

I am just another addict who loves writing. I also delve in cryptocurrencies a little bit and I wrote this short piece on publish0x in which I explore how much in common our beloved 12-step programs have with decentralization and crypto in getting our current financial systems to 'recover'.

You can find the article here.

Looking forward to your comments!

Is this a place to discuss 12 step programs? I only speak English and am newish to Reddit.

Can anyone here please send me the chart that Russel used(s) on his "Recovery" tour?

I don't remember the whole thing, but he went to a whiteboard and wrote down a situation he'd been in (Feeling imasculated by a doctor) and then delved into it - how did it make him feel, what were the financial, personal, sexual etc implications of it - and so on..

I really need that chart, any idea where I can get it?

I’m both an alcoholic and bulimic 22 year old with borderline personality disorder, (have had 3 inpatient admission in my teens) and current in my 2nd year of my Chemistry degree. I previously had anorexia but over the years it developed into bulimia.

I’ve experienced hair loss since my ED but in the last 6 months I’ve lost all my hair. I

I’ve had the hormonal implant since 2016 which I’m fighting to try and get removed - as it’s known to cause hair loss and it’s no longer needed.

I understand that psych medications also cause hair loss (I’ve been on meds since 13).

Being under 18 I received a lot of input from social services and Maudsley (psych team in Kings College London) but transitioning to university (2 years behind) it’s been impossible to get any help despite being brutally honest. I’ve been impulsive and rather suicidal in the last 6 months having lost my confidence, my hair and willingness to live. I was already struggling last year but I believe the suicide of my best friend in the summer caused me to contemplate suicide more seriously. Both my home life and university aren’t ideal, I’m two years behind academically and having to sit three more exams in august (due to not sitting them previously) in order to pass into third year.

My father is an alcoholic too, he’s spent the last few years in and out of hospital, got arrested several times, and caused my brother to delay his academic year in order to look after his doubly incontinent abusive and catatonic father.

This may be an excess of information but I was wondering if there’s anything with experience or advice? Is my maltreatment of self purely causing balding at age of 22?

I’m finding it increasingly difficult to stay alive and to find hope; I previously felt confident and optimistic with an insatiable drive for medicine and the sciences, but I feel like I’ve lost everything now.

I’d appreciate anyone advice or experience, please the more honest and brutal the better haha. I’ll try and post this on several forums given my current state of self is the product of not one but several factors.

(I’ve known many people with severe problems but never to experience going bald this young? Or am I just making excuses for my psych disorders?)

Thank you xx

Hi folks, I’m a newcomer planning on going to my first 12 step meeting. Is a Round Robin meeting appropriate for a first-timer? Anything I should specifically do as a first-timer when I go? I’m extremely nervous about taking this step, so any thoughts are appreciated. I’m also planning on going to a beginner’s meeting that I’ve found scheduled for later in the week, but until then, wasn’t sure if it would be inappropriate for me to go to this one. Many thanks!

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