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 will reach my 30 day mark tomorrow 7/30! I am so happy to be gamble free for 30 days. Even though I am in a complete financial mess, it feels pretty good to be making progress. I am currently in the process of filing a Chapter 13 bankruptcy so I can keep my home and my car. I am in a lot of debt (due to cash advances and peer-to-peer loans for gambling). I could not pay most of the monthly payments when I started losing at the casino and I don't make enough to cover the debt. I know that the GA book states that we should not take a bailout, but I am going to pay back a lot of the debt through the chapter 13. Sometimes, we have to do what is best for our own situations (1 income household). Has anyone filed/know someone who filed a chapter 13 bankruptcy? What were the pros and cons? What worked/didn't work? If you needed to do this again, would you/ wouldn't you and why?
Thank you for any insight and I thank you in advance.
Money is never the biggest issue with this addiction = it is about becoming the person we want to be and becoming authentic human beings, being true to our own values and living by them. It is about connecting to people instead of connecting to our addiction(s). It is about being a fully functioning human being (NOT a human doing), with a range of emotions, that are GOOD for us to experience when we have created a kind and loving support group of true friends and begin to love ourselves.