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- October 25th marked one year gamble free for me! I joined this site in 2010 and it took me many Day 1's to realize that I have no control when I gamble and I need to never gamble again. I have read all of your stories and can relate to every one of...
- I have been a DS member since July 2010, it's incredible to me that I have been battling this addiction for almost 3 years and probably longer than that if I am really honest with myself. My longest period gamble free is about 5 months and that was...
- I was in church on Sunday and the pastor's message seemed like it was meant just for me! He talked about different appetites we have, like need for approval, sex, food, need for recognition, etc. and how if we do not control these appetites then...
- This weekend I celebrated 120 days gamble free! There were times I never thought I would make it past day 1 but through faith and perseverance I have made it to 120 days!There is a song that I love to listen to as it reminds me where I have been and...
- This was just posed by a friend of mine on Facebook and it really hits home!"The past does not equal the future. Just because you failed yesterday, or all day today or a moment ago or for the last six months, sixteen years or the last fifty years of...
- I am so pleased that I have now made it 90 days, well 93 to be exact, and I have never felt better! I am starting to see progress in all areas of my life and I don't have the aweful guilty feeling that I used to regularly carry around!...
- Today I have been gamble free for 60 days and I am feeling great. I'm writing this post as an encouragement to all of us on the journey towards leading a gamble free lifestyle. Whether this is your first day or you are years into recovery,...
- I self-exluded myself from the casino 39 days ago and have never looked back! Previous attempts to stop gambling had always resulted in relapse. I made it 29 days twice in the last year but always went back on that 30th day. I have now made it 39...
- I did it, I self excluded myself from the casino that is just minutes from my home. It honestly took a lot of courage to take the steps of walking to the security podium and telling them I wanted it to be illegal for me to come back. I had to,...
- I started my journey of recognizing that I am a gambling addict back in April 2010. I have 2 short periods of time not gambling (30 days) but the rest of the time I have been gambling off and on. I thought that I was strong enough, smart enough to...
- I was just reading through some journal entries, both ones I have written privately as well as the public entries of others and I have noticed a theme. There are many of us, myself included, who quit gambling, make great strides and then have a...
- I wrote a journal entry on this topic but feel I need to start a discussion about the freedom that came from telling my spouse about my gambling problem. I discovered that I kept turning to the slots to numb the guilt and shame I felt from losing...
- So I posted that I had made it 33 days and went back because I thought I could gamble responsibly. I learned that was a total delusion. Now that I am back to staying away I feel like the urges to gamble are stronger than ever!! During the first 33...
- So I just met my 30 day goal a few days ago and I was feeling great. However, I started to have more urges to go but was trying to find other ways to be more productive. Last night I went...thinking that I could set limits for myself and play...
- This is the first weekend in about a year that I DID NOT go to the casino, what an accomplishment! Whenever I had downtime on the weekends I would head straight to the casino and spend hours there. This weekend was a long weekend and I feared that...