Cyber Bullying Is Addictive Dysfunctional Behavior

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 Twelve Step programs are well known for their use in treating addictive and dysfunctional behaviors. The first 12 step program is not just for alcoholism and drug abuse, but also for  various other addictive and dysfunctional behaviors.

The Twelve Promises: 

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through . . .

1. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
   
2. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
   
3. We will comprehend the word serenity.
   
4. We will know peace.
   
5. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
   
6. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
   
7. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
   
8. Self-seeking will slip away.
   
9. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
   
10. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
    
11. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
    
12. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
    

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.

God,
Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the Courage to change the things I can
and the Wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.

Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.

Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.

Amen.