How 12 Step Programs Work

A 12 step program only works for you if you show up to meetings, such as Underearners anonymous, where I’ve done at least one phone meeting. The 12 step program is all about showing up. You also have to work on yourself, just by keeping yourself clean from your addiction. I’d go to Emotions Anonymous a long time ago. I’d say by now that I got my anxiety under control although OCD can cause more anxiety in a person because of the way it makes you second-guess yourself. OCD and all mental illness really, is like having an insane bully in your head that tells you every mean thing you’ve ever been told.