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...
i had my birthday weekend, spent it with ex hub, daughter and friends camping, we were watching a movie on the lawn, "a bugs life" my 8 year old sitting on my back as i lay down braiding my hair, friends / family around, couple of birthday cocktails in, and i felt peace for a moment, and then remembered my other life, and how selfish i have been, and how i will never escape this, and i have only one option, to just power through every day, cause it really steals your happiness if you let it, even if you're gamble free, i still wake up and still have to 2nd guess my night, "did i go" what did I do? oh no im good, i was ok last night.
i assume it gets better, it JUST has to.....
Money has hit my account, i am financially stable and about to be debt free (other than my house mortgage) for the first time
I cannot F*ck this up
i assume it gets better, it JUST has to.....
Money has hit my account, i am financially stable and about to be debt free (other than my house mortgage) for the first time
I cannot F*ck this up
My experinece is that it gets better in time but it is never cured.
I treat it like any other illness and take my meds for it. And for me
my meds are daily check-ins at sites like this.Weekly GA meeting
and I do three online GA tyoe meetings at a site called Gamtalk.
Gamtalk has a 24/7 open chat room posting board like here tons
of info and resouces folks from all over the world supporting each other. The Meetings are on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at
5pm est and usually run for an hour. Yesterday we had our biggest attendance so far 9 members with various clean times and various methods of recovery. So if you are struggling and have time on those days would love to share some recovery time with you folks.
God Bless
Ken L YBIR
I can relate to the feeling of guilt and remorse in a big way, but it does get better with time. I feel, for me, that it's crucial to try and live in the "now" or power through each day, whatever it takes so you don't dwell on the past.
Dwelling on what "was" is a trap that we can fall into pretty easily- focus on what you have and what you want to become.
Jay