Gambling Addiction & Recovery Support Group

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 few people described by the term experience true compulsions in the clinical sense of the word. Problem gambling often is defined by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others rather...

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angie443 06/07/2016

Today marks thirty days without the casino in my life. I am so excited I made it this far. One day at a time, one day at a time.

pennyluv 06/07/2016

Good job! Don't know if it's the same for everyone but I remember the first 30 days feeling like a year. So much is changing so fast during those days and there's so much newness to get used to. I don't feel like quite the same person I was before I began this journey. That's a good thing.

Qwit4Good 06/07/2016

For me, right around 30 days, I felt like crap. I had no idea how I felt actually. In that first 90 I had floodgates of emotion overwhelming me. After most of 4 decades of being emotionally shut down, it was a little scary. And I still was full of self-loathing and still giving myself negative affirmations like, "stupid", "bad", "criminal", etc,
At 30 days, I was afraid still, that I did not have the ability and/or backbone to quit gambling. I still did not believe that I deserved something better from my life. I was still punishing myself and abusing myself and I did not like it one bit, but it is what I believed/was convinced of since I was a young child that I deserved.
I am living proof that beliefs and attitudes and life can change. I think life will change anyway. It can change by consciously making changes, a step/day, at a time. Or it will change if I do nothing, but it will generally change in a negative way if I am not consciously living to the fullest.
Good work on making it to 30 days.