DO YOU NEED HELP???
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-LOGOFFNOWFORSWEETPETESSAKES. We're here, we're
free, and we're confidential. The first step to recovery
is an admission that you have a problem. Call us today.
If you can power off to free up your phone line, that is.
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