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...
Just wanted to share this message that a fellow CG from another site I visit posted there.Have A Wonder Evening Of Recovery !!!
Ken L YBIR
sharing Rabbi Twerski's wisdom
Today at 03:24 PM
Location paraphrased, courtesy of Jim A
Comments:
What We Gain From Addiction - Addiction conveys important teachings. A philosopher who recovered from chemical addiction once explained that the mistakes of addiction enhance the quest for spirituality: 'Our resentments can teach us where to be forgiving; our lonely self-centeredness can teach us where to be loving; our fear can teach us when to trust; our hopelessness can teach us the necessity of the risk of hope. The barrier of our own self-will will teach us what to give up; the consequences of our self-will will teach us why to give up; the self-contradiction of our self-will will teach us how to give up.' Following the recovery program for sobriety/abstinence from gambling constitutes growth, and this is never boring. We are always learning something new, and novelty can be exciting. Pursuing the goals of recovery makes recovery a fascinating process.
Ken L YBIR
sharing Rabbi Twerski's wisdom
Today at 03:24 PM
Location paraphrased, courtesy of Jim A
Comments:
What We Gain From Addiction - Addiction conveys important teachings. A philosopher who recovered from chemical addiction once explained that the mistakes of addiction enhance the quest for spirituality: 'Our resentments can teach us where to be forgiving; our lonely self-centeredness can teach us where to be loving; our fear can teach us when to trust; our hopelessness can teach us the necessity of the risk of hope. The barrier of our own self-will will teach us what to give up; the consequences of our self-will will teach us why to give up; the self-contradiction of our self-will will teach us how to give up.' Following the recovery program for sobriety/abstinence from gambling constitutes growth, and this is never boring. We are always learning something new, and novelty can be exciting. Pursuing the goals of recovery makes recovery a fascinating process.
Thanks for sharing this message with us. I love finding positives in life. I never dreamed that my gambling addiction could lead me to a better way of thinking and living, but it did. It almost feels like I've learned, you can teach an old dog new tricks :) lol Not that I'm an old dog! And not that anyone else is changing me, I'm on a journey where I've realized I CAN CHANGE. Yes, there's lots and lots of positive discoveries on this lovely journey we call recovery.
New ways of seeing things I've been seeing my whole life, new tricks for a stagnant heart! Yeah, that's better than an old dog! lol
We did it, feel like crap and now go on with not doing it again.
Of course, it is not easy, but until we reach the point of "tired of being tired", the struggle will continue.
''Yes it would be hard as I experienced the rawness when new to 'Recovery..
Simply put .. When up to your 'a**in aligators it is pretty hard to 'drain the 'swamp..
Looking beyong into positive when negative is swallowing you up . and 'overwhelming 'damage ''Yes I can ''feel the ?''Where is HOPE..
Hope is Time. A Day at a Time.. a second. a minute, an hour..
like watching a pot 'with water boil , it seems to take longer.; but iffen you walk away 'and do something constructive,,,,Holy smokes 'it is boiling.
So I guess it sounds like my point is :
Keep busy.. Keep trudging away at 'paying down 'debt,, slowly , getting a life in the ''day.. your Life will ''come to a place that ''It feels better.. Don't worry about being on the other side of ''WEllness..
Stay into Today.Do what is 'Todays. Needs.
I suggest......it gets better..slowly.
FAst is a fix.. lol..
As far as ''this addiction when 'Active I had. I know am better Today 'and more honest than ''before 'gambling arrived..
It is 'dead Today for me.. I 'killed the Dream World. It holds no ''allure.
But then my wharped thinking from daily gambling is looked at 'as a time 'that took time to 'quell..
Be wEll 'sandra gams5
As my illness grew progressively worse over the years I would watch each of my relationships slowly dissolve. My heart broke as, one by one people drew away. I wanted to shout at them to please try to understand, try to be supportive! If they loved me, I reasoned, then how could they judge me, condemn me, leave me? Didn't they realize that it could happen to them....or perhaps to a family member?
Many times, love IS conditional, I discovered. The tears are real and the wounds are deep but I'm still alive to fight another day. And maybe someday I'll be able to help someone else the way others have helped me. Without judgement, without hesitation.