Psychiatric Survivors Autonomous - Surviving psychiatry in 13 Steps

The following are the 13 Steps to surviving psychiatry. When should we have our first meeting?

We admitted we were duped/ screwed by psychiatry and that our lives had become unliveable.

Came to believe that a power greater than the mental health system could restore us to sanity

Made a decision never again to turn our will and our lives over to a human being or human-made system

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of everything that made us vulnerable to psychiatric co-optation and abuse

We came out to ourselves, survivors and the human community as to what went wrong

We became entirely ready to transform a defective society. 

We also worked to transform our personal shortcomings. 

We made a list of survivors who had been harmed, and became willing to seek amends for them all. 

We sought direct amends wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or other survivors. 

We continued to take moral inventory and when we were caving promptly admitted it. 

We sought through support and collective action to improve our connection with each other, seeking only to advance human rights and the courage to carry them out. 

Having had a collective awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to survivors, and to practice these principles everywhere.





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