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...
Every once in awhile I have to write about how thankful i am for all of you--this site has been great for me. Thanks to all that tell their stories and give advice and tips. I always appreciate the truthfulness, the raw feelings and the blunt advice ( i.e. if you want stop gambling then stop.) I read some of these stories and feel the pain -i am there with ya-i always wish i could wave a wand and we would all be cured! But i can't so I say alot of prayers. I feel we are all stronger than gambling, we just have to find our resolve and get to it. Some times I look at the member list and there are so many! some I don't know, some i haven't seen around for awhile and some are old friends. Thanks all, i have high hopes we will all be gambling free some day- however we get there-maybe through many relapses(like myself), maybe a straight path, i hope we all end up GF because the pain of this is awful and I know our lives are not supposed to be like this. here is to us and kicking gambling to curb.
Relapses ' moments happens .. I too 'fell a few time well lots LOL .. Each was a stepping stone for growth . I did not see it at the time 'but 'later I realized it.
I am a compulsive gambler ; but am not gambling < I don't think of it, I don't have urges , ideas of 'Maybe ''Just maybe take $20.00 I have no idea why 'just $20.00 'cuz it always 'took more than '$20.00 for me. I held the allusive dream I 'was going to win .
But My Dreams finally were smashed with the times I received Clarity from the spaces between the 'binges of gambling. ''or was it 'I had Space between my ears (have to lighten up sometimes and laugh at me )
'I found out....With Immense Clarity....... I could not place a single bet of any kind 'without igniting the Cycle of compulsion , obsession, to a bet. So I 'finally said 'I surrender. I accept this addiction and me being a compulsion gambler.
Then all my ''recessed dreams of Take $20.00 faded from the back of my mind. That voice came from all the 'failed attempts of chasing the Dream to Win. There was not going to be a win because it 'was not about winning ; but chasing my losses. And escaping from the Guilt of not winning.The more I chased the bigger my losses. What a Cycle !!!!!. Today no bets.. Here.
Be well. Sandra gams5.