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Treatment Options – The 12 step program has been helping alcoholics and addicts to recover for over 75 years. Very much an experiential program, Steps 1 through to 12 of the program are designed to bring about total acceptance of the illness, then offer a permanent solution to alcoholism and addiction. The program is spiritual not religious – that is to say that recovery is built on spiritual principles such as honesty, open-mindedness and willingness. It also requires the individual to take responsibility for themselves through a commitment to taking action to overcome their alcoholism or addiction on a daily basis.
Treatment Options – What is the 12 step program
Treatment Options – The 12 step program is often described as an ego-reduction program, with individuals being encouraged to look at their part in life situations, rather than investing time in blaming other people for example. Once the individual realises that they must look primarily at their own behaviour, they start to discover new skills and resources for dealing with life’s problems. They realise they have choices which were not apparent to them before, due to the chaos of drinking and using drugs.
Treatment Options – The program provides a safe structure for individuals to process potentially destructive emotions such as fear, resentment, false pride, anger, as well as manage emotions such as happiness and excitement which can present their own challenges.
Treatment Options – Here is a quick breakdown of what each step is about…
- Step 1: Taking an honest look at the past to break denial around the illness, in order to gain full acceptance that drinking or using is no longer an option.
- Step 2: Believing that there is a solution and it relies upon asking for help from others in a healthy way.
- Step 3: Deciding to commit to a new way of life, with trust and acceptance as the basis for that new life.
- Step 4: Looking thoroughly and honestly at resentments and harms done in the past through addiction and alcoholism.
- Step 5: Telling another person about all the resentments and harms that have been done.
- Step 6: Confronting personality traits which have contributed to alcoholism and addiction.
- Step 7: Committing to changing these personality traits.
- Step 8: Making a full and honest list of harms done to others and becoming willing to make up for past behaviour.
- Step 9: Making amends to people we have harmed unless to do so would cause further harm.
- Step 10: Keeping track of our emotions and behaviour on a daily basis with a written appraisal of our day.
- Step 11: Developing skills to quieten the mind and allow intuitive thoughts to come in.
- Step 12: Having recovered from active addiction / alcoholism, helping others to do the same.
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