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...
Do you ever feel like that because of your addiction you will just take anything anyone gives you?
I know that when I was deep into my addiction, I felt that I had no right to ask anyone to treat me right. I had such low self-esteem and generally didn't like myself and I think this is what led to my willingness to be treated like crap.
If someone didn't keep their word, how could I say anything since I didn't keep mine?
If someone talked down to me, how I could disagree since I felt so low?
If someone let me down, how could I say anything since I was letting people down left and right?
This type of feeling permeated my life. It changed relationships and the way I interacted with the world. I don't want to live like that anymore. I want to stand up for myself but am a little wobbly on the how of doing that. I guess I'll have to practice more.
Thanks for listening.
I know that when I was deep into my addiction, I felt that I had no right to ask anyone to treat me right. I had such low self-esteem and generally didn't like myself and I think this is what led to my willingness to be treated like crap.
If someone didn't keep their word, how could I say anything since I didn't keep mine?
If someone talked down to me, how I could disagree since I felt so low?
If someone let me down, how could I say anything since I was letting people down left and right?
This type of feeling permeated my life. It changed relationships and the way I interacted with the world. I don't want to live like that anymore. I want to stand up for myself but am a little wobbly on the how of doing that. I guess I'll have to practice more.
Thanks for listening.
Oh Yes, and still do at times.
I think, thinking you deserve bad things to happen to you is as much a habit as anything. You just are like: I just am getting what I deserve. We kind of make our own self-fulfilling prophecies. Just my opinion.