Hi its me again wondering if anybody has managed to find any hobbies or interests to keep them from gambling? I am not able to work at the moment due to illness. My gambling crept up when I was in an abusive relationship in 2010. I believe gambling has ruined my life and caused bad feeling in my family, and I think I have given it enough time to reek its damage and now its time to regain control. It would be nice to hear from any of yous as I'm at the very beginning of this path and I don't want to fail as I'm going to give it my all.
I took up crochett lol and download candy crush or these facebook games. But i feel as if im addicted or obsessed from one thing to another.....
I swapped my gambling for the crush games in the early stages but to be honest, it really was the lesser of 2 evils! I only downloaded ones with set lives & even though I was then waking myself up every half hour or so to play the new one :-0 Instead of time & money, it was only taking time & they never gave me that all familiar gambling headache!
GT has a thread on Tips for keeping busy which is well worth a look @ for some great ideas!
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