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Hello
Yes, you. You,
looking at this screen for hours on end, online. You,
bleary-eyed. You, an addict. Have you looked in the mirror
lately? Been outside? Know what day of the week it
is?
Your name was given
to us by a spouse or family member who is concerned about your
internet addiction. At Internetaholics Anonymous, we can help.
We're a non-profit society of recovering addicts like yourself
that provides support and counseling through weekly meetings
designed to help you cope with your
problem.
We feature a
twelve-step recovery program and in extreme cases,
interventions. Although it is our firm belief that you are
never "cured", you most certainly can
recover.
We have designed a
brief checklist to determine if you are an addict. Do
you:
1) Have twitches of
the hand when you walk by your terminal?
2) Check e-mail more
than five times a day?
3) Spend more time
chatting than eating or sleeping?
4) Surf aimlessly
with no direction, if only to be online?
5) Leave your name
and information at countless sites if only to hope you'll
receive a reply one day from a company you'll never do
business with anyway?
6) Log on before
important personal habits, such as meal preparation, hygiene
or bodily functions?
7) Have red, swollen
eyes that hang halfway out of your head?
8) Spend hours
online on a holiday from work, where you'd usually be griping
about your carpal tunnel syndrome?
9) See smoke arising
from your computer or WebTV box?
10) All of the
above?
If you answered yes
to four or more questions (or chose #10), you have a problem.
Please
call us at
Internetaholics
Anonymous at:
1-800-LOGOFFNOWFORYOUROWNSAKE.
We're here, we're
free, and we're confidential. The first step to recovery is
admission that you have a problem. Call us today. If you can
power off to free up your phone line, that
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