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- From: angelai@wam.umd.edu (Angela I.)
- Subject: RFD: Codependency (Third Attempt)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.161415.11884@wam.umd.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.recovery,alt.support
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:14:15 GMT
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- I would like to propose the creation of a new newsgroup.
- For some reason, this has not appeared in any of the newsgroups the last
- two times I posted it, so please let me know if it gets through...
-
- The group is for codependency, primarily ACoAs - Adult
- Children of Alcoholics. There is an existing group for recovering
- addicts, and a more general alt.support, but there is nothing for
- recovering children of addicts or other codependents.
-
- From the responses I got to a post to alt.recovery & alt.support,
- it appears that many co-dependents, especially Children-of-Addicts,
- are not very aware of each other's existence on the Net, and some have even
- found the discussions in alt.recovery to be actually damaging, since it
- primarily consists of addicts themselves, whose problems are by definition
- partly the cause of the codependency. In a nutshell, it seems that
- starting such a group could provide codependents with a discussion forum
- where they might not otherwise have known of anyone to talk to (on the Net, at
- least) about their situations. Users could also choose to maintain lists of
- contacts in various areas to help others on the Net get in touch with
- local support groups, etc...
-
- I propose that the new group be called alt.recovery.codependency,
- since it is meant to be including but not limited to CoAs, and because
- it is a spinoff of alt.recovery.
-
- This is a Request For Discussion (RFD in the header). If there appears to be
- sufficient interest, I will call a vote in about a month.
-
- Thank you.
-
- Angela Iannaconi
- (I don't think my .sig file is working. My email is angelai@wam.umd.edu)
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