1. Admitting Powerlessness over the insanity of our Bipolarity that our lives had become unmanageable.

I ain't powerless. My life is NOT unmanagable. It ain't Greek drama where Deux ex Machina rules... there might be hard times, but mostly I can grasp control.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves (medications, doctors, families, support team and friends) could restore us to sanity.

Doctors and meds ARE NOT higher power... And friends can help, but they cannot save me and neither would I ask them to.

3. Made a decision to turn our wills and lives over to the care of a Power greater than ourselves as we understand it.

I am not turning my life over... especially to the "higher power" mentioned in point two...

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

whose version of moral? The communist party's one? Or the one of Catholic church? Or the one of bank owners? Or of my potential pdocs?
I think I am pretty decent person, though I do have fears.

5. Admitted to our Higher Power to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our illness.

I am not ill. I am troubled. Deities know. Few friends know.

6. Were entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove our illness.

There is not "cure". And as much as I believe in Gods... there's war in Syria and I feel it is selfish to pray for myself at times like this.
And if higher power means what was mentioned in point two... then no, thanks.

7. Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our illness.

Again, I prefer to pray for Syria and my troubled nation and for the whole humanity and for my friends who need it more.


8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.

I can do that. I pretty much did that already.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Acceptable.

10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we are sick promptly seek help.

Do I have to? I didn't go to doctor with broken toe back then (and it grew together alright).

11. Sought through therapy and medications to improve our conscious sanity as we understand it.

Does Ayrvedic and other wisdom count too? Does going outside of the Shenghen zone to see how people who have it worse then we do live and live happily count? Does turning to universe count? Astral travel and existentialism?

I am trying to hold on possitive aspect of my insanity anyways... since normal sane people in this world gamble on Wall Street and trade with arms...

Is it even possible to understand sanity?

12. Having had a conscious awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry this message to other Bipolar people and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

I am a light carrier... but I prefer different version of light.

Different strokes for different folk, I guess.