What is Gambling-Addiction
Compulsive gambling is an urge or addiction to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. A preferred term among many professionals is problem gambling, as f...
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Friday November 27, 2009
Poem/Artistic Stories
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Dear Gambling Disease,
I am writing to inform you that you suck it wasn't just a buck.
When you said just one more
I wish I would have slammed the door.
You kept promising an exciting life
but the payouts proved exhausting strife .
You keep begging to stay
yet I keep pushing you away.
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I wrote this poem on the 14th March 1994. I look back on it often. 1994 was the year I realised I suffered from depression and I used to do a lot of writing. A couple of years after this I had a breakdown, was medicated and wrote no more. I didn't realise then, but the meds seemed to stifle any attempt at expressing myself.
When
When will it all end?
When will the future ...3 Recommendations1 Comment -
Words
Words on a page
A pen to the heart
So torn with rage
Where do I start?
How do I say it?
The pain that I feel
Is it all in my mind?
Or is it real?
A pen to the heart
Words on a page
Thoughts come apart
With reason, with age
The pain of today
The sorrows of tomorrow
Will all fond their way
In the words that I borrow
Words on a page
A pen to the heart
My heart from its cage
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I get a knife, I’m going to do it again!.. It’s not really a conscious thing, I don’t think..Well lets see, might it be fun to cut. But I have a knife here, right here and for now it is my friend and I know it will help me even make me feel. Teeth bite in as it slide across my arm,The pain I don’t really feel, but my pulse begins to rise. I see the bloo...1 Recommendation1 Comment
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I saw this in an article:
Yesterday is history...Tomorrow is a mystery...the present is a gift from God!
Live for today!1 Recommendation -
Yesterday a friend told me to remember my gratitude list from right after relapsing and to compare it to present. Amazing difference...
I have shared this poem with a few in the past...but it is one I wrote the day following a relapse when I was with my stepmother, who was trying to help me get recovered.
YOU AND ME AND THE ADDICT
You welcome us wholeheartedly into your home, your life, your h...2 Recommendations2 Comments
