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- Wishing you all a great Oct. 21st, 2015 (the day in the future that Marty and Doc came to in BTTF 2). And as of tomorrow, the future is in the past. This space/time continuum continues to baffle me lol
- Three and a half years gamble free :)I was reading some of my old journals, and ran across this one. As someone who was a slot machine addict, this really hit home:In 1954, James Olds and Peter Milner accidentally implanted an electrode into the...
- I came here broken, sick and desperate. I was so in debt I was about to lose everything. Compelled, almost propelled to go to the casino every single Friday and lose hundreds a week, thousands a month. Feeling hungover (even though I wasn't...
- I've often said in my posts that losing money gambling, even though it was a lot of money, was the least of what I lost during my active compulsive gambling period. I had lost the honesty in my relationships,, my dignity, being present in my life,...
- the servicemen or women surprise their kids and loved ones by coming home early. Seeing those kids just run into their parents arms overcome by emotion just leaves me in tears every time! Never gets old...
- I just bought them on a whim from Candyopolis, they were in a bin. They have now become one of my favorite things~ :) How could I have gone SO long without experiencing chocolate covered gummy bears??? Lol
- Wow! Just Wow! I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I just now finished a book recommended by a fellow CG's therapist called "Addiction by Design".by Natasha Dow Schull. Talk about an eye opener. I'm literally shaking with anger...
- Hi Everybody! I'll try to make this as succinct as possible, but I feel the words just spilling out...I stopped gambling a year ago. Have an addiction counselor, went to GA a couple of times but long story short-I was the only woman and felt really...
- Goodhope had started a thread about a gambling addict who had been successful so far in practicing controlled gambling after a period of abstinence. I got curious, and googled, and found Wall Street Journal article from last year regarding changes...
- On another thread, Vicky89 wrote "Am I afraid of having a "normal" life? " I think I am normal (?), but sometimes I have a feeling I don't belong to normal. I am sure we all questioned once in awhile: what normal is?"What is your definition of...
- One of the things I struggled with for the first few months of being GF was resisting the urges brought on by that not-so-little voice telling me that "It's Ok to go just once. Just bring a little money with you, this time will be different. This...
- Everytime I watch the show "Hoarders" it motivates me to clean out my junk drawers and closets. I'm not a hoarder by any means, but definitely a packrat. Mostly sentimental stuff, but as time passes I gain more and more clarity about items I keep....
- It occurred to me last night how much in common my relationship with gambling had with abusive personal relationships. Fortunately, I have never been in one, but my oldest daugher was for two years. She is a beautiful, funny, smart girl, but from...
- Really.I have no urges to gamble. None. Zip. The thought makes me sick.So maybe I am crazy.From my journal;Even when I was addicted to cigarettes, I knew that I had the power to stop. Yes, I was physically addicted, and had to just tough out the...
- how this gambling sickness pervaded every aspect of my life.When I first came here, I was obsessed with the financial destruction I had wrought. Filled with regret, shame, guilt, scared, you name it. Now, after just a few weeks, I see how much of my...