faq

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. What is a blog and what is blogging?

Have questions about blogs and blogging? To get some answers, check out:

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2. How much does it cost for a person to stay for treatment at your rehab center?

Virtually nothing.

There is absolutely no charge billed for client stays or treatment provided at the Central Vermont Blog Addiction Rehab Treatment Center.


3. You mean it is free? How so?

Yes, that is what we mean.

All of our costs of operation are paid through a privately funded and extremely generous endowment granted to us from a very wealthy blogwidow, provided under the condition that we not charge anything whatsoever for anyone who stays at our treatment facility and uses our services and, in addition, that the provision of all of our services remain of the highest quality and are of the most professional in nature and practice.


4. This sounds just too good to be true, is it?

That is correct.


5. Who do I contact and how do I proceed in order to do an intake for enrolling in your treatment program?

As there are many people currently seeking treatment for blog addictions and we only have a very limited amount of treatment slots as well as recovery being a slow and involved process, we have a lengthy and growing waiting list.

Our annual intake process is held on April 1st of each year.

Please ask us again next April 1st and we will let you know then.


6. What am I supposed to do either to find out if I am in need of treatment or, if I am, with my blog addiction in the meantime?

If you can, take some time away from blogging or at least some long breaks anyway and, smell either the coffee or the flowers. In fact it is even better if you do these and many other things with someone in person.


7. Can someone who uses the Internet a lot, yet does not even blog at all -- or, if they do, at least they do not appear to blog as much as what an obvious blogaholic does -- and, be either at risk of becoming a blog addict or otherwise still otherwise be considered seriously blog addicted?

Sadly, yes, at least in general terms anyway, anyone who uses the Internet a great deal puts themsevles at a much bigger risk of becoming a blog addict actually.

Unfortunately this is, what those of us within the official blog addiction treatment center provider system, more commonly referr(ed) to as someone who is a dry blogaholic*(7a) and, in fact, this can be quite a serious problem requiring proper clinical treatment and supervision as well.

*(7a) Definition:

Dry Blogaholic: A colloquial term generally used to describe someone who has either never blogged before in their lifetime or, if they have and had to stop blogging because both their *Internet habit(s)* and they themselves were out of control, they are someone who still manages to demonstrate the same behaviors and attitudes of addiction as an active blogaholic.*(7b)

*(7b) Inspiration drawn via here and, here (with apologies to BillW).


8. In your answer to question 3. (above), you mentioned that [emphasis mine]:

"All of our costs of operation are paid through a privately funded and extremely generous endowment granted to us from a very wealthy blogwidow [...]."

What is a blogwidow?

An example of what a blogwidow is can probably best be illustrated or described by visiting a post on that very topic on the Blogaholics Anonymous blog, here.


9. Is this for real?

Do you really have to ask?


10. Are you serious?

Please remember, having as well as maintaining a healthy and well practiced sense of humor is among one of the most important keys to achieving a lasting and hopeful recovery.


Does that answer your questions about us and what we are about?

If this does not answer these or, other questions that you may have to your satisfaction however, please make certain to read our disclaimer (click here) as well as also visiting the Blogaholics Anonymous blog for additional information.


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This particular Web page was last updated on Sunday, June 13, 2004