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...
I did it. The SELF BAN PAPERS are in the mail. Yeah, I do feel good about it now. Hopefully this is the first step in and on my road to gambling freedom and some sanity and a savings account. I have felt so so crazy. Such a bad addiction to live with. I have not been happy for years. I have to change my LIFE. I have to get things in order. I Have to get the money for that vacation with grandsons to Branson. And with gambling none of that is gonna happen. But one day at a time. One SELF BAN at a time.....Goodbye Choc. Casino. Pay your own employees , add your own new wing or hotel... But NOT with MY money you don't.
Come back and write to us all as much as you need to in the next few days and weeks.
I self-banned on June 24, 2015. I thought it would all be so simple and easy. Just went in, turned my name in, and that was that.
Except it wasn't. It took a period of withdrawal -- insomnia, night sweats, headaches, moodiness, and a summertime cold for me to realize this was a deeper issue. I've been in therapy, using this forum religiously, and reading everything I can about addiction.
Congrats on making the biggest step forward. That's huge. Had I not self-banned, I would've gone back so many times by now. But know in case the road ahead is bumpy for you as it was for me, we are all here for you!
I know what a good feeling I had when I Banned myself. It was as if chains had fallen off.
Last year I said out loud to myself, "I don't trust me." I might as well have been hit in the gut. How did I go from trusting myself more then anyone to now having no faith in me? It was called lying and gambling. What ugly words that came with heavy chains.
Banning is a way to get rid of those chains and start living again.
You will love not having the weight of shame on you.
Hugs.
I had to take an attitude of gambling was everywhere but I was allergic to it. It will make me sick if I gamble - I know it my heart. I have recovered far too much to go down that rabbit hole again.
Life is better without gambling - you will not regret this decision.