Good for you!! You have to start somewhere and this is a safe place. Try to take it slow,a day at a time. The days will mount up and you will get your life back. It's so much better than giving them everything. If I can do this I believe anyone can who really wants to be free. God Bless

Glad you are here :-)).

Have you thought about a budget for gambling? I have done this before and it has helped me..just a thought..sorry I don't know your whole story

My advice to you is to move since you live right across from the cursino. If that's not feasible, self ban. If, like me, you have no self control & know ve close to the casino, do it...move IR self ban. Or, grab a pair of binoculars & keep track of people's facial expressions leaving the cursino... I'm thinking it would oykd be easy to pick out the gambling addicts from the rest. Choice is yours. Why torture yourself unnessarily living across from a casino? If you truly want to abstain & start an active recovery program you'll have to change something.

How long have you been going? I'm sorta in your shoes, the casino is on my way home from work and not too far from my house. If I was across the street, I could only imagine my addiction would be worse. I understand the anxiety, I have had and do have the same experience. So much so that I take medication for it now. - hopefully you are not at that point. Glad you joined!! I'm a newcomer to the group also, trying to find my way around this site and a world without gambling. Stay strong. ❤

You might try making a list of other things to do when you are bored. Or how about doing some volunteering?

Here is what is helping me to stay on track today. I'm focusing on being honest with myself. I hate the lack of control I cause in my life when I start believing my own lies. I've wrote this here before, I live in Vegas. I have for many years now. I quit my job of approximately 8 years because I HATED that UGLY hotel/casino! As if my addiction was it's fault. Even just driving past it made me cringe with hatred. It hasn't made me feel that way in years. It's not the casino, it's me. I believe in staying away from gambling establishments because why tempt yourself on a bad day, or even during a moment, possibly triggering a thought (lie) of returning to the addiction.
But like I said, I live in Vegas, so there isn't a way to get around the glitzy glamor! Ha ha ha! Made myself laugh at that thought! For me it's not the machines fault, or the casinos, it's all on me and my addiction. I KNOW staying away from that next bet is my best defense towards living a better life.
Thanks for letting me let it out. Peace & Love

Thank you everyone for your thoughts and ideas, I did go in the casino the other day,. It's so hard to stay out when I'm alone and nothing to do. This was my second times in there last week. I know now that I need to stay out. I only have the urges to go when I don't have to work and when my daughter is gone to a friends, I hate being alone. I broke down the other day and cried and prayed for help. I know I'm not alone. Again thank you all.

You are not alone, that's for sure.
Why is it so hard for us complusive gamblers to learn to trust ourselves? The desire to stop gambling is there, in our hearts, but the feeling that we can't trust ourselves, especially with alone time, is gut wrenching and lives in our minds.
I'm on day 11 here. Day 11 after getting day whatever many times before. Today I will not gamble. If that creepy urge tries to take root I will listen to my heart, where my desire to stop lives. I long to put more and more time between me and my last bet because I long to learn to trust myself again.
Stay strong, stay humble and trust your heart today, with me. One day at. Time