On Top of the World!!!!

Hey Diggoryboy,

Glad your doing well. Thanks for the encouragement on my diary. I definitely realize there will be many more challenges ahead, it's great to be able to think clearly about the consequences of gambling in sobriety. As before when your in the dumps and gambling you don't care. Stay strong, we all want to rid this addiction.

Chicagoguy

Very dull, very normal, very happy not to be a gambler.

Great quote Diggory boy!

It sounds like heaven to me!

Keep strong my friend

MW

Looking forward to a nice quiet Easter with my family. I have a few months of quite hard but exciting work ahead. It is great that I can face it with a clear mind and know that my earnings from it will be for me and my family This time last year I was paying off debts. I am now on the straight and narrow and I will not leave this path.

Ok weather hasn't been very Springlike but it is now Easter, Spring and a time for renaissance and rebirth. The darker, colder times are behind me and I feel like I have done the hard yards. I am lucky that despite the insanity of this addiction and the financial meltdown it caused me I still have my family, house and a career that is allowing me to financially recover. Four months ago I stopped gambling. I am now free. The habit is broken, the addiction gone, as are the debts(although it will take a while to replace my life savings!) The next challenge for me is to ensure that I don't relax and allow myself the smallest gamble ever. I hope now that I will remember this. It is my choice to keep living this wonderful life or to go back to Hell. I remember so vividly the desolation and despair and thinking I would never be able to give up and get to where I am now. I WILL NOT GIVE THIS UP !

Well done diggory great stuff your posts have changed so much it gives us all strength keep gamble free we don't need it your right 🙂

The bear

Hey Diggoryboy,

Much congrats on your continued abstinence. Great to be reaping the benefits of not gambling anymore. Stay positive and were always on guard to our old ways. Well done!

Chicagoguy

Nearly 2 weeks since last post. Been very busy. Some lovely family time and some very exciting work. Am so out of the habit of gambling. Almost feels odd to post and comment on it. Anyway here I am still a non gambler and very, very happy to be so!

Still smiling. Enjoying the sunny spring. Working hard. Loving life. Nothing more to say.

Very busy with work and study(I have to hand in 10,000 words and other bits in afew weeks!) Work continues to go well. Things will ease off a bit in July, August time and I will enjoy hanging out with my wonderful son. Can't wait! When I get there it will also be the longest period of non gambling for me in the last 20 odd years. But as not gambling is the new normal for me this doesn't seem to be a big deal. A very happy man.

Nice one Diggory. You continue to be an inspiration. Keep up all the good work.

G

Over 4 months since my last post. Sorry for not being around to lend support to others. Somehow I didn't feel I needed to be here and that it was becoming an unnecessary link to a life I was wanting to escape. My life has continued to flourish in every way. Some lovely family holidays, some exciting work and just a wonderful summer. So why am I back? Well despite my last bet being over 9 months ago I have felt a few urges recently. The fact that I am so happy now after some intensely miserable years of hopeless addiction is obviously not enough to completely banish this demon forever. This demon may be with me with for longer than I hoped but I will not give in to it! Gambling may not be an ever present obsession to me anymore (after 20 years) but I guess it is still there just waiting for a moment of weakness and I know where that moment could lead. I am a free and happy man again and I will not return to Hell. Best wishes to anyone whatever stage you are at in recovery. Don't gamble! Choose life!

Yo,

Thank you for your post .

You should be proud today my friend . Bit like me staying in bed yesterday cos I was not sure that the addiction would not over power me .

There's you logging back on here , a safe guard measure . I remember reading some where or it quoted at GA do not test yourself .

So pleased to hear that life post gambling is soooooo much better , but then it was always going to be .lol

You know where we are if you need us .

Hats off to you ! Complacency you can cross that word right out your dictionary 🙂

Shiny xxxxxx

Diggory - thanks for your post on my wall pal: a real kick up the back-side just when I needed it...

Pleased to hear things are going well and you are enjoying life. As we both know, gambling can strike you down at the strangest of times - so do avoid complacency and stay strong.

All the best

D123

Hi dIggory boy

thanks for the post. Fantastic post from you and always inspires me when i read posts like that.

Keep at it mate, you are reaping the benefits that not gambling brings and it doesnt cost you a penny.

take care

blondie

Thank you for the posts comrades. I feel much better for having got those urges off my chest. I have had a lovely week, full of good and exciting things. I am so grateful that I am no longer a gambler and so pleased that the urges just stayed urges. I am lucky that professional circumstances have helped my life turn around so quickly but I also believe you make your own luck and the luckiest thing that ever happened to me was stopping gambling. Hope everyone has a great gamble free weekend.