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Gambling is like a majic trick where it eats your health, time and steal your money by promising you a lifestyle you will never achieve👍
Hi
The addiction gambling just indicated how emotionally vulnerable I was.
The addiction gambling was a form of escape and an adrenaline rush which I use to think made me feel very much a live and that it was happiness.
In the recovery program I got to understand that the addiction gambling was a path to self destruction.
I would go to work for weeks months years decades and give that hard earned money to complete strangers while I and my family went with out.
I got to understand each time I came out of the gambling estabishments I was in a state of emotional trauma.
The addiction gambling caused me to cause my self far to many pains.
The addiction gambling caused me to live in fear and tell more lies to my self and to others.
One time my wife told me that my addiction was not what was causing her pains, it was my lies, it was my deceptions, it was my not being able to have healthy intimacy realtionship with her.
Walking in to the recovery program was not what I wanted to do, yet it was some thing I needed to.
The gambling establishment never made me do any thingthat I di dnot want to do.
The gambling establishment never lied to me I lied to my self.
Then over time I was able to abstain from gambling.Â
Then over time I was able to get much healthier.
In the therapies I was able to talk about my pains which in time were healed.
In the therapies I was able to reduce my fears and my trust grew in me and in the people in recovery.
In time emotional intimacy grew in so many people.
I am not the loner today.
I am not in pain today.
I am getting healthier and healthier, and do not want or need to gamble today.
Money was never going to heal my pains.
Money was never going to make me feel like a succesful person.
Money was never going to reduce my fears.
I am a non religious person who walked in to the recovery pgroagram feeling like a complete failure.
I had lost all faith and hope in my self, I had lost all confidence and self worth in my self.
I am happy and proud to be the person I am today.
Love healing and peace to every one.
Dave L
AKA Dave of Beckenham
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