Hello all, I have an awful gambling addiction and today is the first day of change. I am tired of the shame, the anxiety and the pain this causes me.
I am in the same position, started the self exclusion today and feel relieved but also drained. Been listening to Liam Gallagher you’re too good for giving up. I spoke to someone on here the other eve, as felt the same guilty and ashamed and as they said it’s time to look forward, this is all a positive change. I wish you well.
Hi
I did not understand how unhealthy I was until I put effort in to my recovery.
I did not understand that living in guilt and shame was living in the pains of my past.
In recovery I learned how to abstain from my unhealthy addiction and become a much healthier person.
Yet once I was abale to abstain then with therapy and work on my self I find that I had so much more potenial in my self.
The gambling was a form of escape when I could not cope emotionally.
Just for today I do not want or need to gamble.
Gambling was a form of self abuse and self neglect.
I worked for my and gave it away to complete strangers while I and my family went with out.
In time as I got much more healthier my values changed and I changed and in time I would heal my pains.
It is not healthy to live in pain any more.
It is not healthy to live in fear any more.
It is not healthy to live in my lies any more.
Healing love and peace to every one.
Dave L
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