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 literally could not bring myself to throw them away.
When I told my therapist what I was doing, she said it was like keeping an abusive ex lover on the back burner just in case I decided I couldn't live without him. She was right.... it was like I was saying, I know you are dangerous and I don't ever want to see you again, but here, let me put you up for safe keeping in case I change my mind.
Gambling addiction really did a number on my ability to think clearly!