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...
Funny how we cling to the wins and deny all the losses. In my final year or two of gambling there was really no such thing as a win. I would not quit gambling until all the money was gone, every penny I could beg, borrow or steal would be put into the poker/slot machines. At the end I did not understand why I could not stop and I was no longer having any fun, I felt like a zombie. A shell of a person going through the motions of life.