Twelve step groups
There are a wide variety of self help groups based on the 12 steps, originally developed in Alcoholics Anonymous. Here are a few:
- For people seeking to manage their spending and debts
Debtors Anonymous is a great resource
- For people working to overcome eating issues, there is
Overeaters Anonymous
- For help with incest and childhood sexual abuse, the
NYC branch of SIA has meeting lists for the tri-state area
- For help with issues such as grief, anxiety, low self-esteem,
panic and other emotional issues, there is Emotions Anonymous
- For help with couples issues, there is Recovering Couples Anonymous.
Though many couples in RCA are also in other 12 step fellowships,
the only requirement for membership is a desire to "stay committed in
loving and intimate relationships"
Sex, Love & Romance Addictions
- For sex and love addicts, there is
- For friends and family members of sex addicts, there are two 12 step groups

[...] metanalyses
[studies based on a group of other studies] find that self-help is almost
as effective as other therapeutic interventions, and most change occurs between,
not during, the therapy hour. Writing in the December issue of
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, he cites, for example,
research showing that about 75 percent of people who change behavioral and
addictive disorders do so on their own.
[...] about
75 percent of people
who change behavioral and addictive disorders do so on their own....
Psychotherapy Networker, July/August 2007, p. 16