Pop-up urges

It fasinates me how my emotions trigger the urges to gamble. Even when I get excited or anxious gambling is the first urge to hit me. I knew when I am bored or depressed that the urge rears its ugly little head but now I see the opposite is true too. You really have to learn to recognize these emotions so they don t lead you down that dark ugly road again. It s been over a month since I gambled and still the urges pop-up in a very quiet calming kind of way. Thank God I m seeing them quickly and discarding them until they pass. One day at a time. You can t gamble, because you can t win, because you can t stop.