Gambling Addiction & Recovery Support Group

Hi Ken :)

Thanks for sharing this message with us. I love finding positives in life. I never dreamed that my gambling addiction could lead me to a better way of thinking and living, but it did. It almost feels like I've learned, you can teach an old dog new tricks :) lol Not that I'm an old dog! And not that anyone else is changing me, I'm on a journey where I've realized I CAN CHANGE. Yes, there's lots and lots of positive discoveries on this lovely journey we call recovery.
New ways of seeing things I've been seeing my whole life, new tricks for a stagnant heart! Yeah, that's better than an old dog! lol

Hey Guys! I think we need to see more replies to this one, at least I'd like to...not trying to tell anyone what to do :)

Ken, I agree with Moyer... I like to be optomistic, although lately I've been just the opposite. I believe that things happen for a reason... at least to some extent. If something positive comes from this addiction, I'll be so happy! I think I need to work on my recovery for a while longer, before I'm totally convinced!! :) thanks for posting this... it's inspiring for sure..

I have always believed that things happen for a reason in life. I am trying to find the reason why I have this addiction, and what I can do to make it a positive thing.

How about "Sh*t happens, Life goes on".
We did it, feel like crap and now go on with not doing it again.
Of course, it is not easy, but until we reach the point of "tired of being tired", the struggle will continue.

Good Entry Ken.. 'Thanks to twerski's wisdom.
''Yes it would be hard as I experienced the rawness when new to 'Recovery..
Simply put .. When up to your 'a**in aligators it is pretty hard to 'drain the 'swamp..
Looking beyong into positive when negative is swallowing you up . and 'overwhelming 'damage ''Yes I can ''feel the ?''Where is HOPE..
Hope is Time. A Day at a Time.. a second. a minute, an hour..
like watching a pot 'with water boil , it seems to take longer.; but iffen you walk away 'and do something constructive,,,,Holy smokes 'it is boiling.
So I guess it sounds like my point is :
Keep busy.. Keep trudging away at 'paying down 'debt,, slowly , getting a life in the ''day.. your Life will ''come to a place that ''It feels better.. Don't worry about being on the other side of ''WEllness..
Stay into Today.Do what is 'Todays. Needs.
I suggest......it gets better..slowly.
FAst is a fix.. lol..
As far as ''this addiction when 'Active I had. I know am better Today 'and more honest than ''before 'gambling arrived..
It is 'dead Today for me.. I 'killed the Dream World. It holds no ''allure.
But then my wharped thinking from daily gambling is looked at 'as a time 'that took time to 'quell..
Be wEll 'sandra gams5

After reading the original entry I decided I didn't have much to say so I left, but then I realized how much I did have to say about it, so I came back. One thing that occurs to me is the saying, "There, but for the grace of God, go I."

As my illness grew progressively worse over the years I would watch each of my relationships slowly dissolve. My heart broke as, one by one people drew away. I wanted to shout at them to please try to understand, try to be supportive! If they loved me, I reasoned, then how could they judge me, condemn me, leave me? Didn't they realize that it could happen to them....or perhaps to a family member?

Many times, love IS conditional, I discovered. The tears are real and the wounds are deep but I'm still alive to fight another day. And maybe someday I'll be able to help someone else the way others have helped me. Without judgement, without hesitation.