Other communities for people trying to address their compulsive shopping include Shoplifters Anonymous, a 12-step community that is modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous and meets by videoconference every week.
Sex-addiction treatment is designed to help people with impulse-control issues and, like Alcoholics Anonymous, focuses on abstinence and avoiding triggers.
So there's obviously the deep like, oh, I was in Alcoholics Anonymous 2 type stuff, right, where it feels like, whoa, that could go south in a bunch of different ways.
And they were going to Alcoholics Anonymous, they were going to the Salvation Army, and they were going out to all sorts of huge international Christian groups and leagues.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a group of people who get together in their community or their neighborhood to help each other with their problem of alcoholism.
That principle number nine of making amends means you're going over to people you've interacted with and explaining to them why you're in Alcoholics Anonymous.