If you want to feel bad about yourself then gambling is for you. If you want to feel good about yourself and enjoy life again, then kick gambling to the kerb. That is basically everything you need to know about gambling.
Great words!
Gambling addiction is an illness..... a drug addiction.
its not about a bad person trying to be good..... its about an ill person trying to get better
Gambling was my drug to cope with life... only it was destroying me.... thats the polar opposite complexity because it should have been crystal clear to me that it only made my problems and feelings about life much worse.
it has direct parallels with a heroin addict.. they feel compelled to do it.... the escape was there a few times but wears thin and the body soon becomes dependant on it.... it never frees them.... it traps them in a vicious circle of dependency as health deteriorates
While its happening they see other normal people as squares and its very hard to talk them out of it... thats addiction in action
Thats what many people dont understand about gambling addiction.... the body and soul become dependant on it.... its far less about the money... its the drug of the act and getting back at the system in a futile exercise in drug dependency
I see the regular addicts in my town and they have given up on life to a large extent just as I had. However beyond a certain point they cant help themselves until some sort of born again moment rises up
So I understand what you are trying to say and life does get better gamble free even if it takes the mind a while to adjust to that
Best wishes to everyone on the forum
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