I can't stop gambling

[gorillahung]

So from my earlier thread if you didn't read it, I went bankrupt from gambling. I put over $40,000 in slot machines in a year, most of it borrowed money. My bankruptcy is finalized but I'm still gambling. It's not as bad as it was. Here in WV we have legal video slots and there's a gambling parlor on every street corner. I used to take $200-$400 in every night. Now I'm only taking $20-$30 so I guess that's some progress. My goal is to get rid of the gambling cravings all together. I renewed my gym membership hoping to catch the weight training bug again. I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't cut out the gambling.

 

[buddhabuilder]

Gamblers Anonymous is a tried and true recovery program. Here is some contact info;

West Virginia Council on Problem Gambling
405 Capitol Street, Suite 1003
Charleston, WV 25301
Tel: 304-344-2163
Fax: N/A
Email: [email protected]

Gamblers Anonymous (Gamblers Anonymous) is fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from a gambling problem.

Training can be an important part of any recovery program. Best of Luck.

 

[musclemom]

Sweetie, I went back and read a couple of posts from your earlier thread ... you said you had an opiate addiction before the gambling but what you need to understand is the opiate addiction and the gambling addiction are just different sides of the same coin. You need therapy, a 12 step group, SOMETHING. You didn't KICK anything, you just changed gears and developed a different bad habit and the odds are you're just going to keep swapping addictions until you deal with the core issues of why you're numbing yourself, seeking the rush, whatever.

 

[stevesmi]

move to a place where there is no gambling.. start up lifting, fishing, and other hobbies and you won't ever want to gamble again.

 

[nangiggles]

try therapy, try thinking what is beneath it, as MM said you just traded addictions, think of it as a hole in your life, it contains something that disturbs you (anxiety, frustration, anger, repressed feelings, denial, depression, etc) you filled it with drugs and then stopped but didnt addres the hole, so you now fill it with gambling, if you stop gambling the hole is still there! eating, smoking, exercise, you're gonna keep compulsively doing something until you address it and everything is bad when you abuse it, try 12 steps if you are hard on money, most community services, church, etc have programs and meetings.

 

[mistaballoonhands]

move to a place where there is no gambling.. start up lifting, fishing, and other hobbies and you won't ever want to gamble again.

And then he'll trade gambling for sex addiction and start fucking the fish...


All kidding aside, this guy needs help. Lots of it. Good thing he came to a bulletin board website.

 

[Fitguy308]

Just do drugs instead of gambling it's cheaper

 

[musclemom]

All kidding aside, this guy needs help. Lots of it. Good thing he came to a bulletin board website.

Sometimes people just need to say things to someone else to begin to get their thoughts in order, the classic "sounding board". What do you do when you have a problem you're ashamed of? Bouncing ideas off of internet strangers is better than not coming to grips with reality

 

[-SD-]

move to a place where there is no gambling.. start up lifting, fishing, and other hobbies and you won't ever want to gamble again.

^^^^^^^ move to a state with no gambling

 

[digimon7068]

how about this? just fucking quit already...damn...find some chick that likes to give blowjobs and transfer your addiction to that.