FAQ :

What is Media Addiction?

Media addiction is a disease.We have found that it is a disease that never gets better, only worse, as time goes on.

As media addicts, we have fallen into patterns of compulsive and obsessive behavior in relation to media that do not satisfy our real needs.
We have found that
we have certain symptoms,behaviours and characteristics in common. :

Just as overeaters are triggered by too much food and will binge after a having reached a point of being full, or workaholics who will continue working past the point of being tired so it is also, with certian patterns of media addiction. After reaching the point of "information overload", instead of "shutting off the ",we will binge on "MORE". We will not be able to "turn off the machine", or "put down the book", in spite of our intuition that tells us it "is enough". Instead of taking time to mul over and digest the information we have taken in, we use more information to drown out our emotions and feelings. "We isolate avoiding intimacy with ourselves and others".

"MEDIA ANONYMOUS (tm)"

OBJECTIVES :

To provide support and recovery from MEDIA ADDICTION, COMPULSION or OBSESSION, based on the 12 steps of ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS.To promote and educate the public regarding MEDIA addiction,its symptoms and RECOVERY.

ACTIVITIES :

To share in a recovery program for MEDIA and associated addictions.This is available to anyone who wishes to stop any bottom line behaviour in relation to any MEDIA."There are no membership fees as we are self supporting through
our own contributions"

MEETINGS: by appointment / pls. request meeting informaion list(s) by email.

MEDIA ANONYMOUS T.M. :

1. We admitted we were powerless over MEDIA
--- that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our selves .

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our concious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others still suffering, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Media Anonymous (t.m.) is based on the "The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous"

NB*: re. copyright restrictions, MEMBERS ONLY (THIS ISSUE ONLY), feel free to download copy and distribute this newsletter, in the tradition of the "step 12",to facilitate the dissemination of this program " for those out there who are still suffering".To start up new meetings, pls. e-mail for a startup kit. Pls.submit a list of meeting times for inclusion in our " Media Free Times (tm)"/" Media Anonymous Newsletter (tm)". We may post or publish stories of recovery, or other articles of interest to members.Thank you for sharing.
For further info pls. contact :

"Media Anonymous World Services (tm)"(inc.)

"THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS" :

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol --- that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than our selves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. Admitted to God to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11. 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. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

The Twelve Steps are reprinted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps does not mean that A.A. is in any way affiliated with this program. A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism only---use of the Twelve Steps in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after A.A., but which address other problems, does not imply otherwise.
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