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...
Due to my gambling addiction I am on a payment plan for 2012 & 13 with the IRS & state and had to file an extension for 2014. This is hard, gambling really made a mess out of me financially. I was late on rent 2x
and some of my bills. I guess some of you have been there. Gambling takes everything.
I have an addiction I know, but it is different than a physical one and that is why it seems so insidious and hard for me. Breaking the habit of projecting into the future and thinking of the past and just being in the present is difficult right now, but writing this helps.
I have noticed behaviors that I didn't have before my gambling addiction and they are:
1. being lazy- not having a lot of ambition
2. not taking a shower everyday or every other day.
3. Eating more fast food and gaining weight.
4. Worrying about my future
5. Not telling anyone that I gamble except here on this site.
6. Not sleeping as well as I used to, Waking up in middle of night.
7. Isolating from people
8. Watching too much TV.
9. Smoking more.
Crap, have any of you experienced these things?
and some of my bills. I guess some of you have been there. Gambling takes everything.
I have an addiction I know, but it is different than a physical one and that is why it seems so insidious and hard for me. Breaking the habit of projecting into the future and thinking of the past and just being in the present is difficult right now, but writing this helps.
I have noticed behaviors that I didn't have before my gambling addiction and they are:
1. being lazy- not having a lot of ambition
2. not taking a shower everyday or every other day.
3. Eating more fast food and gaining weight.
4. Worrying about my future
5. Not telling anyone that I gamble except here on this site.
6. Not sleeping as well as I used to, Waking up in middle of night.
7. Isolating from people
8. Watching too much TV.
9. Smoking more.
Crap, have any of you experienced these things?
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next.
Amen.
(this serenity prayer helped me a lot in the beginning of my recovery, and I still refer to it often when I get frustrated or anxious.
we have experienced some of the things you listed, and for me, it was a struggle to accept that I can not gamble normally. seems like you might be going through some depression, too. and that is a normal part of the process in recovery. hang in there.