Lindy posted an update in the group Community2 years, 1 months ago
I’m a senior and a Christian. I am married and my husband has Alzheimer’s. I’ve had a problem with playing online games for the past year or so… I need to just talk about it.
Hello,i too gamble online.
My husband had an illness also where his mind was not there.
Was not able to hold me accountable for my actions.
I gambled to escape,it helped me alot.
Sometimes when i just knew my world was crumbling,and everyday was like the one before.
Gambling gave me the strength to go on.
But then after a few years,it was me that was crumbling not my world.
To this day i still gamble.why i truly dont know why?
Wish for you all the strength to stay strong ,without using gambling as a medication to get through a day HUGS.
I can identify with what you say. My husband cannot hold me accountable but I am so sad that I can’t be honest with him. He just couldn’t understand. Lately I am so disappointed in myself, I sometimes just sit and cry. I’ve put our credit cards so high that I’m just playing catch up every month to stay afloat. I want so much to pay them off and discontinue what I’ve been doing. It was a way to pass the time and get my mind off concerns… but now the concern is gambling. I hope to be able to follow through. There’s been so many upsets this past actually two years… beginning with a serious car accident that took me months to recuperate from surgery etc… then Covid… then my husband’s diagnosis and his decline. I have to have surgery within the next couple of months, and then our son wants us to move with him to NB. Sorry to unload all that. I guess I’ve just bottled everything up because I can’t/won’t let anyone know. I am really ashamed that I’ve let it get this far… Anyway, thanks for your chat . It helps to know someone else can identify so well…. take care … Lindy
Our seniors are being hit the hardest before and post COVID. I think you might be using gambling as your “escape” due to all that is going on in your life and for caring for a loved one. I do understand. Feel free to email me if you need to talk. Often, seniors also retire and are not sure what to do with all the TIME they now have.
Gambling becomes a habit as it is a slowly progressive problem that then becomes an addiction. lyonmedia@aol.com
Catherine
Hello,i too gamble online.
My husband had an illness also where his mind was not there.
Was not able to hold me accountable for my actions.
I gambled to escape,it helped me alot.
Sometimes when i just knew my world was crumbling,and everyday was like the one before.
Gambling gave me the strength to go on.
But then after a few years,it was me that was crumbling not my world.
To this day i still gamble.why i truly dont know why?
Wish for you all the strength to stay strong ,without using gambling as a medication to get through a day HUGS.
I can identify with what you say. My husband cannot hold me accountable but I am so sad that I can’t be honest with him. He just couldn’t understand. Lately I am so disappointed in myself, I sometimes just sit and cry. I’ve put our credit cards so high that I’m just playing catch up every month to stay afloat. I want so much to pay them off and discontinue what I’ve been doing. It was a way to pass the time and get my mind off concerns… but now the concern is gambling. I hope to be able to follow through. There’s been so many upsets this past actually two years… beginning with a serious car accident that took me months to recuperate from surgery etc… then Covid… then my husband’s diagnosis and his decline. I have to have surgery within the next couple of months, and then our son wants us to move with him to NB. Sorry to unload all that. I guess I’ve just bottled everything up because I can’t/won’t let anyone know. I am really ashamed that I’ve let it get this far… Anyway, thanks for your chat . It helps to know someone else can identify so well…. take care … Lindy
Our seniors are being hit the hardest before and post COVID. I think you might be using gambling as your “escape” due to all that is going on in your life and for caring for a loved one. I do understand. Feel free to email me if you need to talk. Often, seniors also retire and are not sure what to do with all the TIME they now have.
Gambling becomes a habit as it is a slowly progressive problem that then becomes an addiction.
lyonmedia@aol.com
Catherine