Hi DP,
That's the spirit dear soldier!!! Ugly beast will always wait patiently round the corner...you know what to do - middle finger out!!! 🙂
Seriously, well done, keep fighting and heading to the better future
You are worth it!!
Take care
All the best and keep posting...good,bad and the ugly!
Sandra x
14 days today gamble free, i am a million miles away from where i was mentally 2 weeks ago ! desperate/anxious/sick !!!! now feeling calm, in control and ready to finally beat this addiction. No slip ups, i simply have to do it now ! Have a great weekend all and thanks for the post sandra.
Dark Place
DP
Fella glad to see you are fully onboard the gamble free bus!!
Well done my friend
Duncs stepping forward never back.
Day 17 today, looking forward to achieving 1 month of abstinence and then moving on from there ! was sorely tempted to do a £5 acca on the football at the weekend but realised that it wall send all the walls crumbling down again. I just cannot afford to bet anything, not 50p not £1 nothing !!!
Anyhow busy week ahead and looking forward to watching the footy tonight as a neutral !
Have a great week everyone, Dark Place
So happy to have you back in a better frame of mind, my friend! You know you have to keep that up. I notice that when you do have even a little stray, it turns ugly fast.... so, don't have even a little taste. Glad to be fighting alongside you! We will beat this!
DO YOU LOVE MONEY ? i watched an interesting article relating to investors and the relationship they have with money. It is an interesting question we could all ask ourselves as gamblers DO YOU LOVE MONEY ? i think if we should take time to consider this.... it starts to give real meaning as to what drives us mentally and why many of us gamble. Money is the route to all evils, it is a well know phrase ! but it does not have to be like that does it ? how good did it feel when you last did something nice for someone else ? it made you feel great didnt it, it certainly made me feel great ! so if we can consider what we are doing with our money and change our relationship it will drag us away from all the evil thoughts and selfishness of gambling. After all gambling is trying to make a quick profit then more and more and more !!! but it does not work like that, it never will ! we have to think about doing good things with money, so fundamental/technical/sentimental ! if you do something good oftensomething good happens to you, some people call it Karma ! so today i am carefully thinking about these things. Fundamental is our basic needs home/clothes/food normal bills to be able to live ! technical, is carefully considering what to do with any spare money ! LOKKING deep into it, not the quick buck attitude ! of course sentimental is self explanatory.
I hope this helps my friends and others on this forum, i really do think it is going to help me. I am not in love with money anymore, i am divorced from it because it has been the route to my evil !!!!!! GAMBLING, like so many of us. Now it really is time to change and be good to my family and others, you can do the same.
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By the way, i am 19 days clear today ! DP #
22 days and stronger by the minute, feeling fantastic without gambling, long may it continue. Have a great weekend all, Dark Place
Well done DP!!
Every day counts and the only way is forward. You doing just that. Nice and easy day at a time
Enjoy ur weekend!!
Be proud and b kind to urself
Sandra x
Day 24 and moving on, Dark Place
I was thinking about your 'Do you love money?" post from a few days ago. It's a hard question for me. On the one hand, it reminded me of a tv advertisement that used to play here which ended with a line that always stuck with me... "If you want to know what someone values, look at how they spend their money." I, of course, would feel very guilty when I heard that because of all of the dollars I'd throw away in the casino. On the other hand, money isn't really all that important until you don't have any, like the position I put myself into now. I currently have less to live on until the end of the month than what I used to spend on beer and cigs in a week. I find myself obsessing about money at the moment. I've come to the conclusion that my relationship with money reflects the chaotic, yo-yo relationship that I have with life in general. I yearn for balance in my life and can't seem to achieve that. Sadly, it's something money can't buy!
I hope we do some day meet for that beer... and maybe by then I'll have my sh=t together enough to be able to buy!
Day 26, happiness is a another day without gambling, Dark Place
Hey DP,
Thank you so much for your kind post, really much appreciated. As for supporting others it is a key in my own recovery. So much strength on this site, and I feel very honoured to be part of it. Every story is different, but so similar to one another at the same time.
Every soul on here, has that determination and strength to keep going. No matter what we all want to end up in other side, peaceful and calmer side.
We all in this together, and here we unite. Couldn't be more proud of you all dear fighters :-))
As of you, great going DP 26 days whoop whoop!!! Keep at it, day at a time, happiness is just round the corner grab it with both hands my friend and never let it go. You are worth it, every day we abstain, we get that crucial piece of ourselves back. Upwards we go.
All the best
Have a good day
Day at a time
Sandra x
27 days and soon 1 month ! long may it continue, Dark Place
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