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...
Last night I realized that the only reason I keep gambling is that I have never truly felt that I could not control this. I control everything else in my life, why not this? How can I really truly start to accept that. I say it, I even mean it, and then, without warning, I am back playing slots online, convinced I can just play $40 and be done. Never happened, never will. Turns into more $$ and pain and regret. Why can't I accept that this is something I will never, ever control????
I fear that I'm defeated. That I'll always gamble and will never get better.
I fear that I'm defeated. That I'll always gamble and will never get better.
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That's sooo hard...the reason is simply because it is out odf your contol..you are powerless over it...I hope that helps..you are not a bad person...but, a person with an addiction...
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You can't control an addictive gambling urge. It controls you. Do you only gamble online? Maybe it would help if you forced yourself to signon to this site and tried to express how the urge feels. It's not a good feeling, I know. Every time you resist the urge it will make you stronger. You can't control everything in your life, you can only HOPE to gain some control over your own. It sounds so simple to say try to think a positive thought, I know. But I also know if you give it a go one will pop in your mind, even if it's a tiny one. You know you have a gambling addiction, to me that is one thought that is positive, you wnt to fight this monster. Me, too
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cancel your internet connection at home - i just did
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Hiya its the hardest thing accepting that i have no control and it my most frightening thought that i may never have control and looking at the journals that makes us NORMAL for this addiction. Hope you keep trying Hope I keep trying. I am trying to moderate my thoughts like turning 'never will' into 'havent yet' sometimes it works. And from one of the journals (thankyou) I find when I am obsessing about what a loser I am I am saying out loud (yelling actually if I'm in the car) 'just stop thinking' and that has been working some of the time too. All the best
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Thank you all, so much.
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