I'm not sure where you live.
There's Gambler Anonymouse or GA. It's a 12 step base recovery program.
It a support group where you can seek help from others.
The 12 steps is living program. The conception is that you'll learn to live a better
life that you don't need to go gambling or escape into the many other addictions.
It is progressive. it dosn't happen over nite...and it won't get better.
If you google GA..there's a 1-800- hot line. You will directed to a person that
will talk to you. You also do more reserch or ask for a package of informations
that can be mail to you.
The trick is not to stop...anyone and everyone had stopped or tried to manage addictions. 1 is too many and a 1000 is not enough.
The key is to stay stopped. The 12 steps is used to giveyou better living tools and copping skills to deal with life.
well..you know some people say..it's hard to deal with hard times
Also at the tokken....addicts don't know how to handle happiness either...some people self sabatage becuase happiness feels wierd.
Some people feel or think they don't deserve to be happy.
Some poeple will say it the quality of your recovery that the 12 steps offers.
If you're trying to stop..you'll go through mental withdraws...when gambling
time comes around....you body clock or routine.
An addiction is an addiction. Gambling is just as devistating as any other addictions.
You go through the same cycle, but gambling is more cunning becuase there's not
a physical addiction involved. However there's the mental obsession or compulsion.
Any casino or on line gaming site had invested billions into this study. The slot machines
or games are designed to get you hook......of course. It's a rush as you said.
After a while...you become nothing more then a rat in a cage. Tap the bottoms over and
over again until you get a stimulation....the whistle and bells...of course.
Casinos are also designed to keep you in. Very few exits, no clock, no day light.
Security grauds station near the exits....as intemination...to keep you away from the exit.
Some people gamble because it's an escape..becuase they feel thier lives are out of thier control.
By gambling it gives a person a sense of control...even though a person knows it's bad or not
so healthy. A combination of a rush and also the hydrilen to get the heart pumping.
anyway, there's alot of issues. Much can be discuss. I can write a couple of books.
But my english and grammer is not so well...i might confussed ya or you might miss understand me.
The first step is addmiting there's a problem or you have a problem and no longer live in denial.
Addiction is cunning, baffling and powerful.
mmm...I'm not a high roller, but I've lost a couple of thousands in a night before.
On the average I was spending $500 a week....wasting my life away as a rat in a cage
in a zoo call casinos.
The first time i went gambling was just for fun on a weekend get away.
We had dinner , won $20...stayed only for a couple of hours. Didn't even think much
of it nor even know it would lead to a lot of heartaches or dystructions.
Hell...i was afriad to drop a $.25 into a machine.
At the height of it...I was slaming a couple of hundreds into a machine making $20 bets
per hand....Serching for that ultimate rush of course. Over a 5 years period I probably
losted $300000.00 usd. A freaken House
I bascailly paid a section of the casino to get remodeled......
I'm not sure what your bottom is..but mine was that i was sitting in room full of people
in a casino...it was loud as hell....it hitted me between the eyes....I felt so empty, losted and alone.
My gf was only 10 feet away from me.
To break my habits...I purchase a PC slot machine game.....no internet connections...lol
I racked up millions and millions of pionts. it stimulated my mind for a little while but it
was fake gamling...I basically got tired of it oneday becuase I felt i was wasting my life
away being stuck to a PC all the time. Then i started obessing in writing music and playing my guitar.lol
Living a balance life style had always been a struggle for me....I'm an addict...I can addicted to whatever.