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...
Just want to give hope to everyone that it is really possible. Pray to have more strength and to be inspired/motivated by people's experiences.
I am 8 month pregnant with my first child. Debt free, and my husband is right just beside me through out my journey of resisting the urge to gamble. Eventually the rush/urge will not be there anymore.
How many times we've been to casinos and I have not played a single penny. Just passed by to go to the buffet. I just look at myself (and my belly) and my husband, and assures myself that it is not worth it to throw all these away for the adrenaline of gambling and be stuck in the gloomy, depressing walls of casinos.
I sincerely pray everyone here recovers. It is not easy but it is worth it.
From a person who tried to take her own life due to gambling addiction, to a renewed spirit. It is possible
It’s really important to know about your experience, how you can “just look at myself (and my belly) and my husband, and assures myself that it is not worth it to throw all these away for the adrenaline of gambling”. Can you please describe how you did this at other times, like before? When you were about to gamble and succeeded NOT TO. It’ll give a big hope.
I will hit 19 months next week, of gamble free living. I too, was one who was suicidal as I entered treatment 19 months ago. I am 60+ - so even though there will be no new babies or wonderfully supportive husbands in my life, there are supportive friends, supportive family, a support group, new hobbies in my life, old hobbies revived, and a strong new spiritual connection with my higher power. I have become friends with myself, turned off the critical voice that used to constantly run inside my head, and overall feel that I have a connection with the world around me, that I belong here and that I have a valuable contribution to make. It is truly a long way from the dark, lonely, bleak, self-loathing miserable world I created with gambling. Today, I do not want to risk my world to gambling, and I never want to feel that emptiness, anxiety and self hatred again.