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 got up this morning and realized I had two more Casinos to ban myself from. They are a bit further and not somewhere I would normally go. I opened my check book and saw that there was money in the bank..... For one split second the ugly thought of getting in the trap accrued to me. In order to do this I would have to lie to everyone I told that I was living a new life.
I called my husband and read off the miles on my car. I told him we have got to get ALL those traps closed off to me. I am buying makeup today, maybe some other stuff. After all, I will not give this hard earned money away to something that hated me.
Hope you all can do the same.
Hugs.
I called my husband and read off the miles on my car. I told him we have got to get ALL those traps closed off to me. I am buying makeup today, maybe some other stuff. After all, I will not give this hard earned money away to something that hated me.
Hope you all can do the same.
Hugs.
:-))))
My husband drove me to a neighboring state so I could self-ban with supervision. He went in the casino with me, and I swear, I almost ran off like a toddler who ate too much candy, lol, but I stayed next to him. and then I self-banned with him by my side. This addiction is something else!