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- From: angelai@wam.umd.edu (Angela I.)
- Newsgroups: alt.recovery
- Subject: Trying to answer hartman....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.203215.26331@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:32:15 GMT
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- My messages keep bouncing, but this can go out to the Net, it's relevant...
-
- In your letter, you write:
- >I would suggest getting your terms straight. ACA's and codependants
- >may have a fair bit of overlap, but they are two separate groups with
- >separate issues & problems to be addressed.
-
- >Codependants include spouses, parents, siblins & other family. Anyone
- >who enables the addicted person to continue in his behaviour.
-
- >ACA's may be purely victims, without ever having contributed
- >to the addicted person's ability to continue in his behavior.
-
- >These seem to justify separate groups, parallel to the .recovery
- >group that you already mentioned.
-
- >You have my permission to repost this reply in the news groups if
- >you think it will help the discussion.
-
- > -Richard Hartman
- > hartman@ulogic.COM
-
-
- My reply:
-
- Thank you for your input. I'm sorry if it was unclear to you from
- my post, but the intention of the proposed group is for
- (recovering) codependents, _especially_ those who are also ACoAs.
- I recognize that there is a difference, and in fact, I have been to
- meetings of both types.
-
- For the moment, it appears that a single spinoff group would be
- sufficient. If the readership & traffic increases significantly,
- there is always the possibility of further spinoffs. It would
- certainly fall within the group charter to discuss ACoAs who do not
- have the associated codependency problems. Also, there are some
- books which define "codependent" as, essentially, anyone who is
- dependent on an addict (an addict = someone with destructive, compulsive
- behavior). A person who enables the addict to continue their
- destructive behavior patterns is termed an "enabler." At any
- rate, by some definitions, a child of an addict is a codependent,
- although their dependency is physical (financial, etc.), not
- necessarily emotional. An adult child of an addict would be a former
- codependent on the addict, and usually still is.
-
- I appreciate your insight. I will save your message, and post it
- if/when it is appropriate.
-
- Regards,
- Angela
-
-
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