Anonymous Emotions ( EA ) is a twelve-step program for recovery from mental and emotional illness. By 2017 there are about 300 active EA groups in the United States and 300 others worldwide.
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Histori
Marion Flesch (July 24, 1911 - October 10, 2004) is responsible for creating the group that will become Emotions Anonymous. Marion is a graduate of St. Cloud State Teachers College (now St. Cloud State University) and on various occasions working as a teacher, secretary, clerk, accountant, bookkeeper and office manager. Later he became a certified chemistry dependency counselor through the University of Minnesota and began work on a master's degree, but quit at age 80 because of health problems. Marion initially went to Al-Anon's meeting on the advice of a friend to help overcome a panic attack. Then Marion learned from another twelve-step program, Neurotics Anonymous and she started her first meeting in Minnesota held on April 13, 1966, at Merriam Park Community Center in St. Louis. Paul. Neurotics Anonymous grew rapidly in Minnesota, and by the Autumn of 1966 there were thirty active groups in the state.
The differences evolved between the Minnesota group and the headquarters of Neurotics Anonymous. The Minnesota Intergroup Association separated from Neurotics Anonymous on July 6, 1971. After unsuccessful attempts to reconcile differences with Neurotics Anonymous, the Minnesota group later adopted the name of Anonymous Emotions. They wrote to Alcoholics Anonymous World Services for permission to use the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions. Permission granted. Anonymous Emotions officially submitted the Articles of Association on July 22, 1971.
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Misconceptions
Destination
EA is not meant to be a substitute for psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, or any kind of mental health professional care. People may find it useful as a complement to mental health care, as a personal tool for better mental health in general, or when psychiatric care is not available or they have resistance to psychiatric care. EA is not trying to force members to follow anyone's advice.
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Jim Voytilla of Ramsey County, Minnesota, the Department of Human Services created the EA group for intellectual defective substance abusers in 1979. Voytilla noted when a special demographic of this substance abuser attended the AA meeting in the surrounding community, they felt uncomfortable and made others attend the meeting comfortable.. The EA Voytilla meeting was created to avoid this problem, and overcome his client's illnesses other than substance abuse. Since then, four articles have defined the EA narrowly as a special program for mentally or intellectually retarded abusers. In the same way, EA has also been misrepresented as either a particularly good organization or especially for those who have been discharged from psychiatric hospitals.
EA does not discriminate against any demographics. All it takes to join the EA is the desire to be emotionally good. No EAs, and never, special programs for people from certain backgrounds or care histories. It is not uncommon for individuals in recovery from an addicted or former patient in a mental hospital to seek help at EA after discharge.
Process
- For more details on this topic, see Self help groups for mental health: Group and program processes Twelve steps: Process
Anonymous emotions view mental and emotional illness as chronic and progressive, such as addiction. EA members find that they "hit bottom" when the consequences of their mental and emotional illness lead to total despair. The twelve steps of the group symbolically represent the human structure in three dimensions: physical, mental, and spiritual. Diseases that the group handles are understood to manifest themselves in every dimension. The First Step in each group of twelve steps states what members can not control with their willpower. In some cases the emphasis is on experience in the physical dimension; in AA First Step shows the recognition of helplessness over alcohol, in Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is powerless over food. In another group, Step One emphasizes experience in the mental dimension; in NA First Step shows acknowledging the helplessness of addiction, in the EA (as well as Anonymous Neurotics), it is powerlessness over emotions. Anonymous emotions focus on distorted moods and emotions, not just the desire to change mood. Subjective experiences of helplessness over one's emotions can result in a wide range of behavioral disorders, or may be the cause of mental suffering without consistent behavioral manifestations (such as affective disorder).
In the members of the Third Step, surrendering their will to a Higher Power, this should not be understood as encouraging a passive attitude, but the goal is to increase acceptance of reality. The Twelve Step process works to replace self-centeredness with a growing moral awareness and a willingness to self-sacrifice and selfless selfish action; this is known as spiritual awakening, or religious experience.
Literature
Anonymous Emotions publishes three books approved for use in organizations. Emotions Anonymous is the main book, book Today contains 366 daily meditation readings related to the EA program, and Work If You Work This deals with EA tools and guidelines in detail.
- Emotional Anonymity (1996). Anonymous Emotions (ed revised.). St. Paul, Minnesota: Emotion of Anonymous International Services. ISBN: 0-9607356-5-8. OCLCÃ, 49768287.
- Anonymous Emotions (1987). Today . St. Paul, Minnesota: Anonymous Emotions. ISBN: 0-9607356-2-3. OCLC 19232484.
- Anonymous Emotions (2003). Successful If You Work This . St. Paul, Minnesota: Anonymous Emotions. ISBN: 0-9607356-9-0. OCLCÃ, 54625984.
Tools and guidelines for recovery
All twelve-step programs use the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, but most have their own specific tools and guidelines that emphasize the focus of their program. EA developed the "Twelve Useful Concepts," and "What EA Is... and No." "Just for Todays," as well as a slightly modified version of AA's Twelve Promises. EA "Just For Todays" is adapted by a twelve-step organization for women victims of domestic violence with a history of substance abuse, Wisdom of Women (WOW).
See also
- GROW
- Anonymous Neurotics
- List of groups of twelve steps
- International Recovery (formerly Recovery, Inc.)
- Recovery model
- Self-help group for mental health
References
External links
- International Anonymous Emotions
- Anonymous Emotions in Germany
- Anonymous Emotions in Japan
- Work based on or about Anonymous Emotions in the library (WorldCat catalog)
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