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...
You have half of step one, you also need to admit that your life has become unmanageable. It is this admission, this knowing that we can not change the fact that we are addicts that we gain power over our addiction. It can not be reversed or changed nor can we be magically turned back into social gamblers. We must know as we stand the the precipice of the next bet, that we are likely to dive in deeper and harder than we did before. We must know in our hearts that it makes our lives unmanageable. This is the beginning of knowing why we want to quit indulging this addiction.