20-01-2010, 10:42 AM
Hi Helen
I hope your story helps fellow sufferers realise that this adiction can be beaten. <!-- s
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I also hope that the readers on this forum who think they can handle this by themselves realise that is not he case.
Yours is a story that people who have no experience of this addiction feel is exaggerated or myth or very rare.
As a fellow gambler I would like to assure everybody that the compulsive gamblers of our society quite often lose absolutely everything. That means they have lost the house, car,family,friends and money. They can also spend a stint in jail, as in your case.
It took about 2 months of attending GA meetings for me to realise that the people in my meeting were all "good people".
They had one problem only, and that was the gambling addiction. After about 6 to 8 months, I started to like myself again.
That was a nice feeling, considering how I loathed everything about myself when I was gambling.
I will be 12 months off the punt on Jan 25th this year, and I could not have done it unless I had hit my "rock bottom' and got help from GA.
Hope you continue gamble free & enjoy the life we all deserve a chance at.
Best wishes
Roy ( Brissy Australia)
I hope your story helps fellow sufferers realise that this adiction can be beaten. <!-- s
--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> I also hope that the readers on this forum who think they can handle this by themselves realise that is not he case.
Yours is a story that people who have no experience of this addiction feel is exaggerated or myth or very rare.
As a fellow gambler I would like to assure everybody that the compulsive gamblers of our society quite often lose absolutely everything. That means they have lost the house, car,family,friends and money. They can also spend a stint in jail, as in your case.
It took about 2 months of attending GA meetings for me to realise that the people in my meeting were all "good people".
They had one problem only, and that was the gambling addiction. After about 6 to 8 months, I started to like myself again.
That was a nice feeling, considering how I loathed everything about myself when I was gambling.
I will be 12 months off the punt on Jan 25th this year, and I could not have done it unless I had hit my "rock bottom' and got help from GA.
Hope you continue gamble free & enjoy the life we all deserve a chance at.
Best wishes
Roy ( Brissy Australia)