DDA Step 3 of 5

DDA Members Share their Experience on DDA Step 3 of 5:

“In traditional addiction programmes, I was sometimes made to feel that I was somehow taking an easier, softer way in my recovery by taking medications. This caused a huge amount of resentment and fear in my early attempts at recovery.

For me, medications are an essential part of my recovery. I am lucky and extremely grateful for the fact that as long as I take my medications as prescribed that I am generally pretty stable in my mental health, but I have also put in place with mental health services a process that will kick in if I start to get unwell for any reason.

As someone who is dually diagnosed, I am now aware that some of my previous relapses were down to a deterioration in my mental health. In DDA, I’ve learned I am likely to always need medications, but that there should be no shame in that or in needing extra help for a whole range of issues outside of my addiction recovery.

At times I’ve used mental health professionals, psychiatric nurses, my medical practitioner/GP, and have also completed specific therapy around the traumas that I experienced as a child.

This Step is an essential part of my recovery now and I wouldn’t be without it.”

The 12 Steps:

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Step 1 of 12

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Step 2 of 12

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Step 3 of 12

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Step 4 of 12

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Step 5 of 12

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Step 6 of 12

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Step 7 of 12

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Step 8 of 12

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Step 9 of 12

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Step 10 of 12

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Step 11 of 12

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Step 12 of 12

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DDA's Additional 5 Steps for Dual Diagnosis:

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Step 1 of 5

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Step 2 of 5

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Step 3 of 5

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Step 4 of 5

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Step 5 of 5

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The 12 Just for Today Stanzas:

Stanza 1 of 12

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Stanza 4 of 12

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Stanza 5 of 12

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Stanza 6 of 12

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Stanza 7 of 12

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Stanza 8 of 12

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Stanza 9 of 12

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Stanza 10 of 12

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Stanza 11 of 12

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Stanza 12 of 12

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Submit Your Experience on the Step of Your Choice:

Please use the form below to submit your experience on the DDA Step of your choice and help other newer members to learn more about the different ways people have worked the DDA recovery programme.

If you need a reminder of the wording for each of the Steps or the Just for Today Stanzas, then you can view them by clicking on the button to the Meeting Readings that has all of the Steps and the Just for Today reading to be able to see each of the 12 Stanzas:

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