Real Insanity

“‘Step 2’ is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see the truth living in better conditions.”

Adaptation from Hafiz

Often Step 2 (Insanity) is used to explain things that is not very obvious. The facts gets dismissed, based on the mental condition of the people who say the truth.

The question that should be asked is this:

Did “catastrophizing of a man” created a monster out of nothing , Or a monster resurrect a dying “catastrophizing of a man”

The intention of this diagram is to show how the program could be misunderstood. Step 2 is being used to mischaracterize my reality of malignant narcissistic abuse.

The 12 steps program works and it works very well, because it deals with “distorted thinking” (shown below). In step 2. “Distorted thinking” treated as the result of past bad memories. It was never meant to deal with ongoing trauma.

• All-Or-Nothing Thinking

• Overgeneralization

• Mental Filter

• Disqualifying the positive

• Jumping to conclusions

  • • Mind reading

    • fortune telling

• Catastrophizing

• Emotional Reasoning

• Should Statements

• Labeling

• Personalization

PYSD (Distorted thinking (Step 2). It includes Catastrophizing