Anonymity = Ego Death

What is the Ego?

The ego is your sense of self — the part of you that says, “I am me.”

This “I am me” is often shaped by labels you are given — like your name, gender, nationality, religion, job title, family role (e.g. student, daughter, engineer). The ego collects these labels and uses them to define “who I am.”

“Anyone may join us regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion.”

AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and NA (Narcotics Anonymous) aren’t small support groups. Over 2 million people worldwide use the 12 Steps. They exist in 180 countries. Millions of lives transformed — not by professionals, but by peers.

The claim that AA and NA have over 2 million active members globally, operating in around 180 countries, are based on internal estimates published by AA itself, supplemented by third-party sources. AA does not keep formal membership rolls, so numbers are derived from estimates by groups, reports of group size, counts of meetings and periodic surveys.