Internet Addiction

Addiction scientist in the UK may have some help for Clara.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/addicted-scientists-show-how-i...

Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis. In a groundbreaking study, researchers used MRI scanners to reveal abnormalities in the brains of adolescents who spent many hours on the internet, to the detriment of their social and personal lives. The finding could throw light on other behavioural problems and lead to the development of new approaches to treatment, researchers said.

There must be a internet addiction 12 steps program coming soon near you.

These twelve steps and principles are guidelines for members of Internet and Technology Addiction Anonymous to live by. We can recognize and overcome living issues by using the twelve steps and/or principles. If you choose to embrace these steps and principles into your life, it will get better, no matter what you are having a problem with.

1. HONESTY. Admit that you, or yourself, are powerless to overcome your addictions and that your life has become unmanageable.
2.HOPE. Come to believe that the power greater than ourselves can restore you to health.
3.TRUST: Decide to turn your will and your life over to the care of your higher power as you understand it.
4.TRUTH: Make a searching and fearless written moral inventory of yourself.
5.INTEGRITY: Admit to yourself, to your higher power, and another human being the exact nature of your wrongs.
6.CHANGE OF HEART: Become entirely ready to have your higher power remove all your character defects.
7.HUMILITY: Humbly ask your higher power to remove your shortcomings.
8.BROTHERLY LOVE: Make a written list of all persons you have harmed and become willing to make restitution to them.
9.RESTITUTION AND RECONCILIATION: Wherever possible, make direct restitution to all persons you have harmed, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.ACCOUNTABILITY: Continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong promptly admit it.
11.PERSEVERANCE: Continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong, promptly admit it.
12.SERVICE AND SPIRITUALITY: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, share this message with others who excessively use technology and practice these principles in all you do.

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JR Harris's picture

I think she will also need to quit hanging around Danny, he is definitely a bad influence and just exacerbates her online stalking tendencies. She should disassociate from Danny, especially since he is constitutionally incapable of being saved and he has been chanting Bill Wilson for decades.

Clara is so deeply in denial, it is doubtful if she can take the first step and admit she is an internet addict and online stalker for the AA faith.

"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.

I realised she has a very serious addiction and I need to cut of her supply. What I am doing when I am responding to her is enabling her. Poor Clara she has so many issues.

live_free_or_die's picture

Is it possible to merge the AA steps into the IA 12 steps?

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becket's picture

Produce a blog which makes an AA hater accountable for being dishonest, vulgar and contemptuous and it's an unspeakable, blasphemous outrage.

Produce a blog which makes an AA sympathizer the butt of endless lewd, crude, disgusting jokes and lies and it's a fucking gut-busting laugh-riot.

Welcome to the Orange Papers Forum, lurker. If you want to descend to your most base, ignoble, dishonorable self, if you feel your testosterone levels rising beyond your wildest imaginings when you employ bludgeoning techniques to try to quiet your opponents, if you imagine yourself the savior of all victims of everywhere, then this is the place for you. I'm sure you have all the answers, all the jokes, all the meta-grand studies, all the statistics, all the facts at your disposal to erase every single bit of humanity from your resume. And then when the shooting is over you can mosey on up the road to recovering from recovery. Zzz.

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Linton's picture

In all fairness Becket - JR is probably the most level headed and competent poster on this Forum. You're clearly the strongest of the steppers, but sometimes I'm not sure if you're for or against as you clearly do things your own way.

Linton

becket's picture

I vote for Pennywise as the most level headed. He doesn't lay down all that ouija board/spirits/McDonald's/Walmart shit.

I do things my own way. Some things I am against, such as mandating meeting attendance or even allowing criminals out of the house to get "fixed" by AA, which has no skills to fix criminals. I am not a stepper. I just happen to have gone through AA. I don't regard Bill Wilson as a god or Jesus incarnate, nor do I believe he was a scamming bastard without a thought for anyone but himself. He was probably like most of us, falling somewhere in between.

JR Harris cuts and pastes. If that is your measure of competence, the wheels have fallen off the world.

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I check in from time to time just to remember how twisted AA members are.
That and to see Becket's offensive, lewd, crude, & disgusting avitar.

becket's picture

You don't like my lolcat? And yet you seem perfectly content with causeandeffect's lolcat, which looks like a skinned squirrel.

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alkieanon's picture

For example, OPF's Fourth Place Medal Winner averaged just over 100 visits to Orange Papers per hour every twelve (12) hours every day last month (or 50 visits per hour every 24 hours, if he/she did not eat, sleep, or poop).

How sad and pathetic is that?

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live_free_or_die's picture

They do if AA puts them out. LOL!

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http://www.expaa.org/
http://bereanresearch.com/
http://badrecovery.blogspot.com/
NOT AA:
Rational Recovery, SOS, HAMS
http://alcoholabusesolutions.com/

becket's picture

And they also do if AA Haters manipulate context and commit offenses of omission when presenting their case against AA or anything else they hate.

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alkieanon's picture

They do if OPF puts them out. LOL!