Awareness of gamstop

I agree. Gamstop has saved me from myself on more than one occasion. It’s the best tool if your thing is online gambling. 

Totally agree, I only heard about gamstop when I joined here. Like most of us wished I knew about it  long ago

Yes totally agree.  I was at my wits end closing one online slot provider and then a few days later registering again. This cycle went on until I happened by change to read about GameStop online.  Never heard about it before and it is has changed my life.  Now into day 12 gf and even if I had the urge to try the uk providers have blocked me so no use trying. Wish it was better publicised.

Hi

It was very important to abstain from my addictions and obsessions, all the time I was in to my addictions and obsessions I was hurting myself and isolating myself.

The addictions and obsessions were just symptoms that I was not a healthy person.

How much time and energy am I willing to place in to my recovery and my healing.

Every action has consequences, healthy actions has healthy consequences, unhealthy actions has unhealthy consequences.

By sitting on my hands doing nothing but abstain from my addictions was me white knuckling my recovery.

The recovery was going to help me understand each of my emotional triggers.

The healthy people in the recovery program was going to help me and nurture me in to exchanging unhealthy habits in to healthy habits, in my work time, in my want time, and in my family time.

The simple sad fact that when we walk in to the recovery program we have already been survivors, we have already understood by our guilt and remorse we have gone against our own conscience, we have gone against our instincts and said and done things that were very unhealthy to us and to other people.

I am a non religious person and yet I have achieved so much that at one time I thought was impossible.

I am able to be more stable and more at peace with in myself and with other people.

The pains of my past caused fears in me that I did not understand or even know about.

My addictions and obsessions were just symptoms that I was an emotionally vulnerable person.

Until I am admitted to myself that I was unhealthy no one could help me help myself.

Your ability to be honest and open indicates you have over come your fears of rejection and abandonment also indicates you are able to over come your fears of emotional intimacy.

For me my honesty helped me to be able to interact with other people in healthier ways.

In time my guilt and shame were reduced with having confidence and pride with in myself.

Every exchange of unhealthy habits in to healthy habits and helped me become more productive in every avenue of my life.

My emotional triggers were my pains not healed, my fears not faced, my frustrations were due to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations, my boredom was due to me not being motivated, and my loneliness was due to my fears of emotional intimacy.

The recovery program is all about healing for me, healing from the pains of self abuse but more importantly healing the hurt little child in me.

It was very important for me to write down my needs, to write down my wants, to write down my goals.

This helped greatly in bringing clarity and focus in to my days recovery.

Being in recovery I would learn and understand my unhealthy reactions towards people life and situations.

Each pain in me that was not healed or resolved caused fears in me that I did not understand.

Part of my recovery was to identify face each fear and understand it.

Give each fear a number out of 10.

My first day in the recovery program my fears was 10 out of 10.

Walking in to the recovery program now my fears are 2 out of 10.

When my fears reduce my trust grows.

When my fears reduce I am more productive and more interactive with all people.

The question to ask myself what is the very worst that can happen and am I willing to accept the very worst that can happen, once I do so the level of fear drops from 10 out of 10 to less than 5 out of 10.

It was very important to take my biggest fear on first of all.

My emotional triggers were my frustrations due to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations. By me having unreasonable expectations of people life and situations I was effect causing myself pains time and time again.

My emotional triggers were my feelings of loneliness due to my fears of emotional intimacy. My emotional triggers were my feelings of being bored. I can be honest today with out being cruel or adversely affecting other people. I can embrace change towards healthy habits today.

My unhealthy reactions to people life and situations indicated that my hurt inner child was not healed.

My unhealthy reactions in anger, resentments, impatience intolerance, jealous, envy, rage, lack of trust, guilt shame regret remorse penance person pleasing vengeance mistrust self worth low self esteem indicate that I am not fully healthy and not at serenity with myself today.

In time I would open up in the recovery program, I would open up to counseling talking about every conscious memory of my past.

Please keep going to meetings, you will benefit from it in so many ways.

Love and peace to every one.

Dave L

AKA Dave of Beckenham

Agree.it could have saved me thousands and years of pain.

Bumping this topic up again....so anyone new or struggling can see help is available via this....I would advise everyone to sign up for 5 years as an absolute minimum to help eliminate a large portion of the online threat.