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've been doing okay, have been the last two months until these last 3 weeks where I started drifting back into gambling. Yesterday everything "exploded" after taking a nasty loss that forced me to snap out it. I'm hurting right now because again, I now have to deal with money lost and the frustrations it brings. The reason why I did not stop sooner was because I was winning. It's crazy, when your winning you feel you can't lose and all it takes is just one bad loss. Any how, yesterday I had Sunday brunch with my family and couldn't enjoy it because I was so hooked on watching the football scores. It's sad when you think about it. These are moments that are suppose to be spent with family and valued. I know what needs to be done but I thought I share some of this with you guys. Looking forward healing....
It sounds like you had a good stretch of gamble free time. Think about how you started "drifting back into gambling" and try to use that knowledge to stop it from happening again.
We can do this and as long as we don't stop trying we are heading in the right direction.
Lack of money
Winning high
Revenge of getting money back
What do I do ?
Oh well, its in the past.... I cant re-do what has been done. What I can do is to make sure I dont gamble today and take the necessary steps to ensure that I get myself healthy so that I can be there for my family in the ways that they need me.