Suggested 12 Steps of OLGA-non, for the family and friends of gamers. It's taken from Alanon Family Groups, and only one word was changed: "Gaming" instead of "Alcoholic".
This is suggested as a way of recovering for the Gamer's family and friends.
- We admitted we were powerless over Gaming -- that our lives have become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- 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.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Good Pat, I wonder about using "addiction" or "gaming" instead of "the gamer"? I know when I was doing step 1 of al-anon it said "powerless over alcohol" and as I worked through it I came to understand that it didn't just mean what the OTHER person was doing or drinking (or smoking or playing), it was the whole disease of addiction and all of the behaviours I had learned throughout my life as a means of coping with them. Plenty of the unhealthy or "diseased" behaviour was in me and my reactions and I had to learn I was powerless over that as much as other people?
I dunno if that makes sense but I think keeping the focus on ourselves from the get-go is important.
Thanks for posting these :-)
Yes! sounds good to me Melissa!
Yay, sticky these :-)
Thanks so much for posting these Patria.
"The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches." "The first step toward change is acceptance." "Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do." "Change is not something you do, it's something you allow."- Will Garcia
Hugs to all!