
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...

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I have been trying to stop this addiction with no success at all. I live in a rural area and am not finding good support groups anywhere. GA is not close by and it seems like I'm the only one struggling with this problem in a hundred mile radius. I know that is not true, since and Indian Casino opened close by a couple years ago. That's when it all started going down hill for me. The convenience. No longer weekend trips to hit the casino. Could hit it after a hard day of work, or even miss work to go to the casino. Now it's a full fledged addiction with absolutely no control. It changed for me from spending the money I allocated to gambling, to figuring out how to pull out money any way I possibly can, from Credit Cards, writing checks, whatever. This is so against my character which has suprised me completely and I am so sick of dealing with this horrible addiction. Could others please share your success stories and even your trials? I'm feeling like I'm the only one with this sickness. Like I'm crazy or something. So irresponsible. Totally out of control. I HATE THIS.....so bad...... And want to take charge of my life again.
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I own my own business as well, and found that when the going got tough, or the stresses got too much, I got going right to the casino! Just like the alcoholic that drinks to escape life and its challenges, the problems were always there when they sobered up, just bigger and more out of control due to lack of attention. The things in life that we used to take for granted, were all but wiped from the slate, due to neglect. As someone in the active process of this addiction, our thoughts are consumed with our next "fix", and by the same token, the demons are always clammoring for us to 'feed' their hunger, didn't matter where the money came from, as long as we 'fed' them. When you cut off their food supply, the being to tug and pull and scream, bite and kick, but we have to defend ourselves, take the batteries out of the remote, and take back our lives. Get back to living life on life's terms. Nothing is so bad that gambling won't make it worse, just like the alcoholic.....nothing is so bad that drinking won't make it worse for them. Going into the 'dungeons of doom', there was money in our pockets, and we left broke, and then some, broken. Had it not been for that very first push of the button, we wouldn't be broke, or broken. Its not that last bet that leaves us broke, its the first.
We have to make a consious decision to quit, and a consious committment to stay quit. We are all here fighting this same battle to win the war against this horrid addiction. We fight this fight, one day at a time, and we do it together.
hugs and love
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