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If you sprint the 1st couple of miles of a marathon, the likelihood is your going to fail.

Pace and patience the key.. .

V.

Stepping forward, never back.

Dunc's

Recovery is possible - Ade2

How can you not be ready for recovery when existing hurts so much?

ODAAT

Recovery slowly unfolds itself. IF WE LET IT IN.

I Wished

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man

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Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours.

Particularly for those out there who have had a relapse recently, several diaries I follow where this has happened recently and i found them a painful read.

"I have not failed, I have simply found another way that does not work"

So change something and try again my friends.

I learn very recently how cleverly addiction can make us trick ourselves. After many years of the abstain/splurge cycle, I had attempted to manage my behaviour and control my gambling with a weekly limit that I was prepared to lose. I did not realise at the time how much mental strain I was putting myself under. Every time I started to gamble I reached my limit. It didn't matter if it took a few minutes or a few days, I couldn't stop and would eventually run out of funds. I would then go though the usual questions. Why didn't I withdraw while I was winning? Surely I was due a win; how is this fair? Why I'm I sitting here, alone, at three in the morning? Crucially, If you asked me if I was in control I would have answered yes. As crazy as it sounds in hindsight, I believed I was managing my addiction. Addiction will help you twist reality if you let it and I helped my addiction morph into forms quite different though equally destructive before returning to abstinence and this site.

Gamblers are trying to take a short cut to our perceived happiness -

Paul aka Volcano

I thought you had to hit rock bottom but on here has disproved that to me you just have to admit accept and commit and only one person can do that -

Oldhamktf

The see saw was never much fun sat in the middle on your own.

V. On debates.

Are addictions our own personal natures way in healing ourselves?

V.

I can't win, because I can't stop.

Stumper.

When you think about it, all we really need is a diploma, a medal and a heart shaped watch with postman pats black and white dog for company.

R&D via the Wizard of Oz, the yellow brick road to recovery.