Updated September 17, 2023 The adrenaline, the euphoria, the joy of knowing you will be in action is enough to inspire any gambler to gamble again and again no matter how much they have lost. I am not just talking about lost money. I am talking about lost health, family, and friends. About losing everything that matters. I gambled for over 60 years and lost it all. In the last 14 years I have quit gambling and slowly rebuilt my life. Yet, I continue to long for my greatest friend and unconditional lover. Gambling. Now, I am no longer owned by that urge. I own it. But, I only own it only day at a time. So, I stay on guard and keep working with other compulsive gamblers continually or I know I am doomed. Each day I commit to not gambling that day and to get to the next day without making a bet. Compulsive gambling is an incurable, lifelong disease.That is the bad news. The good news is the condition can be arrested. You can stop. It's not easy but it's much better than
I fear that the Ukrainians courageous battle against the Russian invaders will diminish as that war disappears from the front pages of newspapers and news shows. It starts to seem that there is no problem in Ukraine just because the minute by minute reporting is not on events over there continually as it was before That is not true. However, our mentality makes that war out of sight and out of mind. I fear a backlash against the Jewish nation in their retaliation for the murderous attacks committed by Hamas with initial sentiment supporting Israel and now some diminishing support. Everyone hates killing unnecessarily. I fear the US getting politically punished for continuing to support Israel in their effort to wipe out Hamas whose goal is to murder every Jewish person. Unfortunately, innocent people, especially children, are victims. It is a horror. The President is stuck in the middle because of loyalty to Israel, and a
COMPULSIVE GAMBLING DESTROYS Update December 12, 2023 The adrenaline, the euphoria, the joy of knowing you will be in action is enough to inspire any gambler to gamble again and again no matter how much they have lost. I am not just talking about lost money. I am talking about lost health, jobs, family, and friends. About losing everything that matters. I gambled for over 50 years and lost it all. In the last 14 years since 2009, I have quit gambling and slowly rebuilt my life. Yet, I continue to long for my greatest friend and unconditional lover. Gambling. Now, I am no longer owned by that gambling urge. I own it. But, I only own it only day at a time. So, I stay on guard and keep working with other compulsive gamblers continually or I know I am doomed. Each day I commit to not gambling that day and to get to the next day without making a bet. Gambling is an incurable, lifelong disease. That is the bad news. The good n
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