THE 12 STAGES OF DECLINE AND MALADJUSTMENT 1. We gave much importance to ourselves and ourfeelings 2. We grew inattentive to God's presence and providence and God's natural order in our lives 3. We let competive motives, in our dealings with others, prevail over our common personal welfare 4. We expressed or suppressed certain feelings against the better judgment of conscience or sound advice 5. We began thinking in isolation from others, following feelings and imagination instead of reason 6. We neglected the care and control of our bodies 7. We avoided recognizing our personal decline and shrank from the task of changing 8. We systematically disguised in our imagination the real nature of our unhealthy conduct 9. We became a prey to obsessions, delusions and hallucinations 10. We practised irrational habits, under elated feelings of irresponsibilities or despairing feelings of inability or compulsion 11. We rejected advice and refused to co-operate with help 12. We lost all insight into our condition The lay people suffering mental illness self help programme for you is GROW and the outlined 12 steps led to your down fall. The twelve steps of recovery and personal growth are: