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At this time last year I was successfully enrolled in the GameBreak program and was not gambling. Now I am sitting here wondering if I am going to have to sell my home to get out of the hole I have dug myself into. I started gambling again, at first it was just to show myself I beat it and it didn’t control me anymore after 8 months (silly thought to have), then it was just small amounts here or there which grew and grew until I was taking out loans to try and win back losses. I’ve stopped before so I know I can, I think it’s just the fact is that I know to be successful in stopping, I have to stop forever. My brain in very resistant to that idea so here I am continuing to put every dollar back into machines until I quite literally have 71 cents in my bank account and can’t buy groceries.
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I have been on the same roller coaster ride for many many years. I don’t understand why I can’t control this addiction. I quit smoking many years ago and I was a heavy smoker. I do feel I know the reason I go back is because I am lonely and of course the more u gamble the lonier you get because u shut people out.
Frog2255 I think my reason for not quitting is that gambling makes me happy in the moment but the devastation afterwards is horrendous I think I’m chasing some sort of happiness, I want to be happy that’s why I keep gambling, it’s thrilling. I must be addicted to the rush.