Dual Addicitions

i sometimes think i could easily be addicted to alcohol if i was not really careful, to prevent this i nearly always offer to drive if going out as that way it forces me not to drink as i strongly believe it could become an addiction.

I drink everything straight and usually drink talisker whiskey which is 42.5% vol or 40% brandy......when i first started drinking i used to never touch anything above 4% so like gambling it gets worse but luckily alcohol is not in control of me or a problem so far at least.

I think gamblers like us all have addictive personalities and are prone to being addicted to pretty much anything if we are not careful - like really careful...............be that s*x,drugs,drink....etc

I weirdly never have touched any drugs in my life except alcohol and cigars but have been a bit obsessed with being the best at s*x, computer games, drinking the best alcoholic drinks (i.e expensive champagne/single malt whiskey or fine brandy), right down to having fast cars and living extreme and far beyond my means to be honest.

The gambling is the only thing that has caused me a real issue though.

I work hard and try and play hard..... but gambling is the major danger and the demon i need to destroy or at least lock away permanently.

I will warn you though.........as you properly know from the flavour of your post above that we need to find a healthy replacement to fill the gap otherwise another demon replaces the space of the one we have locked up.

Where there is peace - war is just around the corner and must always be kept at bay

Regards

Wayne

a small but very real success

each day i add is another success......

Wayne (LEST-WE-FORGET) DAY 8 GAMBLE FREE

Addiction is merely a tool you use to avoid your own personal reality.

Until we squarely face what pains us & take direct action to change our emotional issues then addiction in some form will always remain

not sure what does pain me though - except lonliness maybe and companionship when single..........

Don't have any big emotional reality hidden ghost of past that i can think of???

I have Debt a mountain of it - but that was after gambling not before.........

hence why therapy didn't work before as nothing to sort out except gambling and happiness lol

Im not saying it has to be a hidden massive thing. Loneliness & a general feeling of unhappiness seem a pretty painful emotion to me. A person is vulnerable to addiction when that person feels a lack of satisfaction in life, an absence of intimacy & strong emotional connections to others, a lack of self confidence of any compelling interests & a loss of hope

well thats me then lol

All of my other addictions are relatively harmless ones or are they? I could never be addicted to alcohol, drugs is never something I've bothered about. Sometimes in my darkest moments I wish i was addicted to drugs or alcohol instead of gambling, crazy I know but I think they are more visible and obvious. Gambling is the hidden addiction and is quite different because nothe about the ingestion of a substance. It is far more complex addiction than many people realise

Alcohol and gambling always seemed to walk hand in hand. I remember loads of betting shops being tagged onto the side of pubs in the old days. Maybe times have changed. I dunno.