I am a 31 year old compulsive gambler, I have been gambling since I was 18. I quit some years back for six months after getting help on GAMCARE, I have been gambling ever since. I haven't gambled since last Saturday so I'm nearly a whole week clean. I feel very strong and determined to quit and I've got plenty of motivation to right now. I know I need to remain vigilant at all time because it's easy to slip up.
Robin
Fella the doors of recovery revolve, the fact that you are back is what matters, well done on arresting the punt for a week now and recognising that you have to remain vigilant.
Bottom line is there is no cure or medication to arrest that next punt but there is a choice to make,it is down to you to keep maintaining your continued abstinence.
The thing that has helped me from my first days recovery to today over two years on is a piece of amazing advice that was gifted to me.
There is a triangle
Time-money-location
Take one away at all times and the punt becomes impossible, gifting you some thinking time,time for the rational side of your brain to kick in and face the fact that gambling can be so destructive.
I hope again this forum helps to build your resolve, it is a choice for life.
One day at a time you gift yourself the opportunity to have a life free from your destructive gambling.
You can actually become a winner.
I won't wish you luck,because like me I guess you have used that up long ago,today you gifted yourself an educated choice.
Keep making that choice.
Most of all enjoy it.
Duncs stepping forward never back
Thanks for all the good advice Duncan, I am still gamble free. I should visit the forum more often, I know how helpful it is to read people's stories and keep it fresh in my mind about the terrible danger which is laying in wait should I become complacent and lose focus.
I am gambling free still and it's been over three full weeks since I last gambled. I am beginning to feel the benefits, I feel less anxious. More confident, sociable and happier. The next couple of weeks will be tough because my girlfriend is abroad fir work until the 18th. She has been an enormous support. I can do it, I just have to remain vigilant. I haven't been having any gambling thoughts. I stay off the gambling, I will reap enormous rewards. I can't get back on that hellish merry go round. I need to develop where gambling addiction has stunted me from growing for so long.
I am proud to say that I'm four weeks clean!
The posts in thus thread have become invisible to me, I can't see anything posted after May 11th. Why is that?
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