How should I deal with my addiction?

[abeanatrice]

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Okay, so I don't post very often, but in the past few weeks I have been completely glued to SDN. I started out just checking the MD/PhD threads, but now I've even moved on to constantly checking the MD ones too. The medical school application process is driving me nuts, but SDN is seriously cutting into my schoolwork efficiency.

Is there a 12-step program that I can join to help me deal with this? Or would I have to tell the adcoms about my problem? Oh well, 1 interview next week, 16 more schools to hear from.

Hopefully all of us will start hearing more here shortly.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

You have at least acknowledged and accepted your addiction. Bravo! 11 more steps to go. 😀

You're one step ahead of me. I'm still in the denial stage.

 

[leverp2000]

For any addiction, http://www.powerfullyrecovered.com/articles/12stepseries.htm

"Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over (name the addiction) and that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.

Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step 5 ? Admitted to God, to ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 6 ? Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Step 7: Humbly asked God* to remove our shortcomings.

Step 8 -Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step 9 ? Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Step 11 ? Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God* praying only for knowledge of God's* will for us and the power to carry that out.

Step 12 ? Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to SDN addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. "

Guess this could work?

I'm kinda in between 1 and 2. I know I have a problem, but I don't feel like doing anything about it 🙂.

 

[Mediculous]

Step 8 -Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step 9 ? Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

What if someone with a really big head wanted to wear one of your good sweaters, but you denied them(because they would have stretched the neck, of course), and subsequently humiliated that person in front of others? Does that count as harming them, even if the person had pronounced melonmegaly?

 

[leverp2000]

Hehe, gotta love Seinfeld 🙂.

What if someone with a really big head wanted to wear one of your good sweaters, but you denied them(because they would have stretched the neck, of course), and subsequently humiliated that person in front of others? Does that count as harming them, even if the person had pronounced melonmegaly?

 

[huseyin]

Okay, so I don't post very often, but in the past few weeks I have been completely glued to SDN. I started out just checking the MD/PhD threads, but now I've even moved on to constantly checking the MD ones too. The medical school application process is driving me nuts, but SDN is seriously cutting into my schoolwork efficiency.

Is there a 12-step program that I can join to help me deal with this? Or would I have to tell the adcoms about my problem? Oh well, 1 interview next week, 16 more schools to hear from.

Hopefully all of us will start hearing more here shortly.

I was thinking that one way to deal with this problem was trying to respond when I read a post. The mentality behind this was to to get tried and not reading anymore. Guess, it did not work. Besides reading current treads, I started to read the previous treads. Am I planning to be expert on this application process. Hell no! This application and preparation is so complicated, there is so much too learn.

You, guys have an advantage over me. You are applying this year. Basically,you are done(for a while) when you get accepted. I am applying next year, so another year of struggle with this web-site is waiting for me.

 

[Neuronix]

Is there a 12-step program that I can join to help me deal with this?

Let me know if you find anything that works 😀