- We admitted we were powerless over the internet- that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to internetoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Newcomers are not asked to accept or follow these Twelve Steps in their entirety if they feel unwilling or unable to do so.
They will usually be asked to keep an open mind, to attend meetings at which recovered internetoholics describe their personal experiences in achieving sobriety, and to read I.A. literature describing and interpreting the I.A. program.
I.A. members will usually emphasize to newcomers that only problem net surfers themselves, individually, can determine whether or not they are in fact internetoholics.
At the same time, it will be pointed out that all available medical testimony indicates that internetism is a progressive illness, that it cannot be cured in the ordinary sense of the term, but that it can be arrested through total abstinence from internet in any form.
what's this all about? well...i guess i should start by introducing myself. hello, my name is dina el-kassaby and i am an internetoholic. i have had an internet addiction for 11 years and i am now ready to share my experience in the hopes that someone here can help me solve and recover from my problem. seriously, though, i was internet free for less than 24 hours and started going through withdrawal:
"gotta check my e-mail, gotta check the news...what if a disaster happened and i'm the last to know? gotta find out m.j.'s autopsy results...etc" (that one is a joke. but c'mon now, leave the man to pass with a bit of dignity. every news station on tv is thriving on this. his albums are sold out in all the record shops accross north america, and suddnely people who haven't listened to his music in years are crying and wearing "i heart MJ" t-shirts. let the man rest in peace for god's sake.)
did you know that some doctors and mental health professionals are actually putting internet addiction in the same ranks as gambling, tobacco and alcohol addiction? that's a bit extreme, i think. tobacco and alcohol are seriously detrimental to health, gambling is gambling, we all know how dangerous it can be, but internet? come onnnnn..apparently i'm going through step 1/2 of the stages of grief: 1) shock followed by initial denial; 2) denial replaced by anger, rage, envy, and resentment; 3) bargaining; 4) depression; 5) ultimate acceptance. i skipped shock and went straight to denial. internet addiction? oh, please! upon reading some actual published works (ONLINE) on internet addiction disorder (IAD) -good lord, it actually has an acronym now- my denial was replaced by rage, and at the moment i'm bargaining -okay, it's not an addiction if i limit myself to 22 hours per day instead of 23, right? right??. depression? i think not. having bbc open right now is euphoric, and ultimate acceptance? never! my name is dina el-kassaby, and i am not addicted to the internet, i am not going through denial, and i will not be present at next weeks meeting. thank you.
the end.
They will usually be asked to keep an open mind, to attend meetings at which recovered internetoholics describe their personal experiences in achieving sobriety, and to read I.A. literature describing and interpreting the I.A. program.
I.A. members will usually emphasize to newcomers that only problem net surfers themselves, individually, can determine whether or not they are in fact internetoholics.
At the same time, it will be pointed out that all available medical testimony indicates that internetism is a progressive illness, that it cannot be cured in the ordinary sense of the term, but that it can be arrested through total abstinence from internet in any form.
what's this all about? well...i guess i should start by introducing myself. hello, my name is dina el-kassaby and i am an internetoholic. i have had an internet addiction for 11 years and i am now ready to share my experience in the hopes that someone here can help me solve and recover from my problem. seriously, though, i was internet free for less than 24 hours and started going through withdrawal:
"gotta check my e-mail, gotta check the news...what if a disaster happened and i'm the last to know? gotta find out m.j.'s autopsy results...etc" (that one is a joke. but c'mon now, leave the man to pass with a bit of dignity. every news station on tv is thriving on this. his albums are sold out in all the record shops accross north america, and suddnely people who haven't listened to his music in years are crying and wearing "i heart MJ" t-shirts. let the man rest in peace for god's sake.)
did you know that some doctors and mental health professionals are actually putting internet addiction in the same ranks as gambling, tobacco and alcohol addiction? that's a bit extreme, i think. tobacco and alcohol are seriously detrimental to health, gambling is gambling, we all know how dangerous it can be, but internet? come onnnnn..apparently i'm going through step 1/2 of the stages of grief: 1) shock followed by initial denial; 2) denial replaced by anger, rage, envy, and resentment; 3) bargaining; 4) depression; 5) ultimate acceptance. i skipped shock and went straight to denial. internet addiction? oh, please! upon reading some actual published works (ONLINE) on internet addiction disorder (IAD) -good lord, it actually has an acronym now- my denial was replaced by rage, and at the moment i'm bargaining -okay, it's not an addiction if i limit myself to 22 hours per day instead of 23, right? right??. depression? i think not. having bbc open right now is euphoric, and ultimate acceptance? never! my name is dina el-kassaby, and i am not addicted to the internet, i am not going through denial, and i will not be present at next weeks meeting. thank you.
the end.
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