I have been an addict for 29 years and have juggled, lied,stolen,lost jobs, friends,hurt family even done community service and I cant take anymore. I am on the verge of losing my house,job and family once more but think this time there is no return!! I have managed to cheat and lie again for several years and am disgusted with myself. I am an intelligent person and know gambling is the devil to me and that i can only lose yet i cannot understand why i still do it!!
Help help help me please get thru this mess and stop this evil?
Hi just looking at your post and trying to calculate how long I have had a gambling problem. 19 years of which 3 I did not gamble. To be honest I am off a bet 9 months now and I wonder what was going on. But there is a line in the GA book "I was slowly killing myself but there was nothing I could do" pretty much describes us all. Most compulsive gamblers would be described as intelligent but yet we mess ourselves up repeatably with gambling. Addiction is a disease, some may argue on that. But give me a reason why otherwise rational people destroy themselves all the while knowing what there doing. If this is not sick I don't what is. Try post here regularly talk to the people on here I would urge you to go to a few GA meetings but that's your choice. Best of luck
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