Computer Gaming Addicts Anonymous
Computer Gaming Addicts Anonymous is a twelve-step fellowship for recovery from video game addiction. It was started in 2014 by a group of computer game addicts, who had previously been part of On-Line Gamers Anonymous.
The fellowship provides a program of recovery based around a modified version the twelve steps and twelve traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. As of August 2017, it consists of an online meeting group facilitating several meetings daily, 13 face-to-face meeting groups with listed meetings (mostly in the US), and an online forum for discussion of recovery and addiction. The fellowship also runs an email and (US-based) telephone hotline.
History
The name CGAA was adopted in 2014, by a group of people who had previously been organized as part of On-Line Gamers Anonymous (OLGA), a recovery program aiming to help both excessive gamers and their relatives. The group indeed saw itself as the continuation of OLGA under a different name. The main reason for the split was a perceived failure of the management of OLGA and the olganon.org website to follow the twelve traditions, and the negative consequences this had for the ability to grow the membership.
The fellowship provides a program of recovery based around a modified version the twelve steps and twelve traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. As of August 2017, it consists of an online meeting group facilitating several meetings daily, 13 face-to-face meeting groups with listed meetings (mostly in the US), and an online forum for discussion of recovery and addiction. The fellowship also runs an email and (US-based) telephone hotline.
History
The name CGAA was adopted in 2014, by a group of people who had previously been organized as part of On-Line Gamers Anonymous (OLGA), a recovery program aiming to help both excessive gamers and their relatives. The group indeed saw itself as the continuation of OLGA under a different name. The main reason for the split was a perceived failure of the management of OLGA and the olganon.org website to follow the twelve traditions, and the negative consequences this had for the ability to grow the membership.
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