I believe I have found a meeting.

Hey i live in Ga and we dont have meeting around here well at least i havent found any...been looking for a day r so. I am so agreeing with u about the whole impluses....and yes so strong see my hardest part is that i work around lottery.....yes i use to work at the store which was easy in a way because we couldnt gamble on the job r u would be fired. But i would come in early to gamble and when i got off at night i would go find a store open to gamble. Well changed jobs after 12years at the same place knowing that would help and it did i worked the scales at the scrap yard made good money really good i lost about 80 pounds felt better and because i worked 7am till 5 pm sometimes 7pm or even 8pm i loved the overtime..lol it was good for about 5 months i think i might have bought one ticket that whole 5 months. Then i got laid off due to this whole economy thing which is hurting so many people. Well i ended up going back to that same place to work and got hooked on my gambling again. Well 2 months of that and i looked got another job which thank god i found I worked with Federal State Inpection grading peanuts....i work that for about 2 or 3 months which might i say paid off m 2 months going back to gamble it was $3489.00 because i was in the whole big time with bills past due...every week i had to beat the bank before something bounce which did twice i was so upset with myself..well sorry to be rambling here lol but when Federal State laid me of (the good this is this comes around every year and is bout 2 to 5 months long sometiime 6 if u have been there a bit.....well now i work with the lady that owes the place that i worked at for years on end the place where i started my gambling....well I talked with her and told her i would love to come work again but cant in the store but what ever u need im there so i work with her week by week and might i say is great now cause i stay on the go again away from the impulses i guess u could say her assisant. i help in the office do erans for her help with the ordering and thing like that and get paid more than what i ever made working at that store full time. Ok well to help with my day to day impluses i would only take 5 bucks with me at a time then i would leave my check book home depit card ex....home it help for a while and i have my bad days so now i have turned to looking on her for some extra support find someone that understand this like i do use to think that it was all me and my old man says that it in my head and i have to just stop thats all ...well he is wrong he doesnt get that feeling playing just one more time if i could just get that one big big win i will be out of dept and be blessed but it hasnt happened.. The most i ever won was bout 3800 and belive that was spent back into lotto hoping i would hit that mill well i have went on way tooo long....hope to here form u would be nice if u could pass along anything in class u might learn,,,,,,

wow sorry bout that up there lol weny way toooo long there lol

I believe we gamble to self medicate ourselves. We try to fill the emptiness or mask the pain with the high of chasing jackpots.

It's so important to understand why you gamble, but as you search for that answer, just starting a new behavior pattern that replaces that behavior is really important.

Look at the gifts that God has given you in terms of skill and talents and see if you can use them in a way to help others.

There is such a high from being able to help others. Give it a try.

You can do it...:).

Kenji

thanks for the advice. It s so true that I need to find other interests. That s the hard part. I m searching and hopefully God leads me to where my talents are best utilized. I know it s not gambling. God Bless.

I agree and you are not alone. A friend of mine and I are going through the same things. It started within the past four months of us going to the casino. For me, I believe that because I lost my job, this is my only way to make any money, only it got the best of me. I lost a bunch of money and have wanted to win it back since, but only spent more.
Our question is how do we ever get back to that stage of bringing $50 and no extra and play again? We admit we have problems right now and are not going there. It is hard because there is not much else to do.

That s the addiction. Your mind is telling you that by gambling you can make money. lol Think about it. It s ridiculous!!! Only the casinos make the money. You need to find other interests that don t involve gambling. That s where I m at right now. It s not easy but gambling will make it harder. Please for your sake find some other interests and stay away from gambling. God Bless.