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ADDICTION - HAD ENOUGH!!!!! - Guest - 10-02-2010

Hi there, I would like to share my poem with you, I have been attending GA 3years 9months now. I have not gambled since I walked into my first GA meeting. This is my feeling on how gambling made me feel and the difference GA has made to me.....

Can't sleep at night, Do you wake with a fright
And does the guilt eat away at you
Feeling pain or shame, can't beat this game
You just don't know what to do
Perhaps your not weak and can beat it
Not addicted to gambling at all
Then why does each day feel like groundhog
Like banging your head on a wall
If you cut yourself and kept bleeding
Then how would you help it heal
By changing each day, one at a time
Not gambling's the BETTER deal
To find yourself as a person
Make changes for all to see
Trust and respect in abundance
From your friends and family
Your new life is out there I promise
Only you can make that choice
Keep going to GA, and soon you will rejoice
But beware addiction's part of you
Always waiting in the wings
To steal your life back from you
Till you lose everything
When you grow as that person
Who is now gambling free
It's the best feeling in the world
I know because it's ME


Re: ADDICTION - HAD ENOUGH!!!!! - Taffy - 11-02-2010

Hi nice poem and well done in your recovery I went to my first meeting in 2004 and I still go now, GA turn my life around and now it my turn to pay they back for what they done for me in life and now I help on the help line and come into the chat room I go to Pontypridd GA group

Take one day at the time once again well done in your recovery


Re: ADDICTION - HAD ENOUGH!!!!! - Guest - 14-02-2010

Taffy Wrote:Hi nice poem and well done in your recovery I went to my first meeting in 2004 and I still go now, GA turn my life around and now it my turn to pay they back for what they done for me in life and now I help on the help line and come into the chat room I go to Pontypridd GA group

Take one day at the time once again well done in your recovery

Thanks for your words of encourgement taffy same as you I have recently started to do the helpline shifts its my way of saying thankyou to GA and offering words of help and advice to other compulsive gamblers who are in desperate pain.... well done in your recovery .... one day at a time is a good way to live and it works take care and thanks for responding.... MJGA