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« on: March 10, 2004, 02:59:00 PM »
could someone refresh my failing memory and help me recall the exact wording of the 7 Steps? I know they were based upon 12 Steps but condensed. Anyone remember?
Thanks--
survivor from 1979...
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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2004, 03:09:00 PM »
haven't found the steps yet, but I'm still looking.

Take a look at one of the lasts posts on this thread, it'll bring back some memories.

http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?So ... 7&start=10

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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2004, 03:50:00 PM »
The 7 steps- Here are the first four.

1.    Admitted that I am powerless over drugs and came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.

2.  Made a decision to  turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand him.

3.  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself daily.

4.  Admit to God myself and another human being the exact nature of my wrongs except when to do would injure them myself or another human being.

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1. Admit that I am powerless over absolutely everything that goes on here. I do not have control over even so much as my own bodily functions, much less where or if I sleep, eat  or speak.Everyone here is insane. Only when I believe that physically & emotionally traumatizing children is an acceptable,rational and positive form of therapy will I be considered sane.

2. Make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of Miller Newton and likeminded individuals who will abuse my body, attempt to destroy my mind and annihilate my self esteem.Agreement to a life sentence by allowing my mind to become a prison of rationality & logic and my heart an absolute wasteland.

3. Made a searching & fearless or self destructive, desperate inventory of all the things a child can imagine could be wrong with them. List all failings, sins or even thoughts of such and then review them with another adolescent who's own self worth is being likewise destroyed by same process and will continue the dehumanization process by verbal reinforcement.

4. Confess everything and anything to as many people as can possibly be squeezed into the sweating room. Turn in your friends and schoolmates to advance yourself. Cry. On command.Most confess to the injury of oneself. Self destruction is the goal.

Just found this website today. Begantherapy wo weeks ago. Think I have PTSD. On a whim decided to look up Straight on the internet not expecting to find much. Mindblowing.

Straight St Pete survivor-10/20/80 -10/20/83

I  was there when the Sarasota group first split off and still there later when Atlanta, Virginia and Ohio left. Some of the names her sound very familiar but can't picture any faces.  They stood me up after open meeting in Feb 81 and read my diary in front of the group. I laughed till I cried. I had run away and called HRS. They were not happy.Remember me? Nervous about joining this group. Don't want to be hurt by this shit anymore.I had no idea about all the suicides.

Marcia
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2004, 03:56:00 PM »
yah fuck that shit
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2004, 04:07:00 PM »
Just posted the first four.  1979 Do you remember Virgil?What the hell was the deal with him? Ever have to sit on his lap? What was up with that?
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2004, 04:11:00 PM »
I just read the bit about the Dingo. Made me laugh until I cried"Stand up. Why is your shit so solid" I am still laughing. I had forgotten how utterly, unbelievably insane it was. :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2004, 06:53:00 PM »
When I first got there, I didn't shit for 3 weeks. Just never could produce w/ an audience. So, on day 21, finally it happens! At lunchtime at the building. So we all get the call, after the 20 count or whatever, to get back to group. Observing the 'no talking out in group' rule, which I'd already been informed applied to out of group circumstances, like in the bathroom, I said nothing. After awhile, someone noticed and came back yelling for me to get back in group. "I haven't shit in 21 days, it's happening now and I'm not going ANYwhere till I'm done!

They left me alone.

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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2004, 09:14:00 AM »
thank you for the info on the steps..kudos for remembering the exact words--your memory is better than mine. I was in Straight St Pete from Jan 1979 to Jan 1981, and have great lapses in my recollection of events. Lots of names, tho--including Marnie, Wanda, Aimee,  Leslie, Doug and Chris--a skinny guy who played a synthesizer alot. Good Luck with therapy--it really does help to talk about all these ghosts..
take care--diane s.
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2004, 08:20:00 PM »
thanks. did we know each other?
Marcia

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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2004, 05:52:00 PM »
Hi Marcia.  I was in St. Pete around 81 or 82 through 83 or 84.  Still can't pinpoint it.  23 long months though.  

GREAT interpretation of the steps!!!  I may even have to send a copy of those to my dad  :scared:.   A little eerie seeing the actual ones again.  

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« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2004, 08:18:00 PM »
possibly we knew each other-most people recall that I owned a horse..ring a bell?
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« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2004, 11:15:00 PM »
I had an oldcomer that had a horse.  But I think her name was Cathy S. They lived up around Tarpon Springs. Lived with a Diane P but no horse. Hmmmm

Lots of holes in my memory these days. Alot of this stuff is just coming back to me. Any other clues?

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« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2004, 08:03:00 PM »
I'm a bit uncomfortable giving out to much info online--but I'll go for it. My name in straight was DeeDee. I had brown hair, cut short and dorky, and lived in Lutz/Land O lakes area, but went to school in tampa--at a christian school, of course! Other names I remember : Kathy and Tim Guy, Kerry Hoeppner, Kathleen Winn, Romney Enos, Margaret Heath...these were my fellow phasers who muddled thru the insanity with me.
Any bells ringing? I hope I wasn't your oldcomer..I'm always afraid I was mean to someone and don't remember it....
DS
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« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2004, 08:46:00 PM »
I lived at a few houses in Tampa, one in Lutz when I first got there-Oct 80. Kathleen Winn was on jr staff...I have yet to forgive her.

 Don't remember much about those early homes as I never stayed more than 10 days. Still DD maybe it will come to me. Memories have a way of doing that lately.Nice to hear from you anyway. :smile:
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« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2004, 07:13:00 AM »
marcia, we probably just missed knowing each other--I "graduated" from straight in June 1980 or so, spent a few weeks as a stupid staff trainee, then hauled ass when I turned 18..as fast as my feet could take me. Kathy Winn was not on staff as far as I can remember..we were newcomers together, and I think I outconned staff faster than she did. Keep in touch! Take care-dee
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