Thank you Scott for this!
Paraphrase from the AA basic text's chapter 3:
Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real gaming addicts. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our gaming careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could game responsibly. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his gaming is the great obsession of every abnormal gamer. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Some pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were gaming addicts. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.
We gaming addicts are men and women who have lost the ability to control our gaming. We know that no real addict ever recovers control. All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals--usually brief--were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced that gaming addicts of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better.
We are like people who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make gaming addicts of our kind like casual gamers. We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse.