• Tam posted an update 2 weeks ago

    Everytime I am down I ask God to please help me get back to what I had etc..I feel it’s wrong to ask God but then again, he knows my struggles. Then when I am up I feel like I defy him by gambling back what I was so stressed to lose in the first place.
    It’s like God sends these little life boats and I just sink them one by one…..I just want to…[Read more]

  • Tam posted a new activity comment 2 weeks ago

    I am so in your boat Jenny. I just won 13k after consolidatimg my loans and then I compulsively shopped to try and justify all the money I almost lost gambling to win, then I went and gambled have of it away again and now I am flat broke…..it is an absurd addiction. I can’t tell whether I .addicting to winning, my net or simply the gamble but I…[Read more]

  • Tam posted a new activity comment 7 months ago

    For me, what helps right now is hearing other people’s stories and realizing this is a real problem. Not just for me . Now that I can see that for others as well, I am kinda like hey ” I have that problem too” now I can work on trying to solve it. Not sure how yet myself but I am hoping if I fill my mind with the red flags of gambling causing so…[Read more]

  • Tam posted a new activity comment 7 months ago

    I am the same. This is my first time on this site. First time admitting how serious my problem is this week and first time trying to figure out how to quit…mine is more impulsive or binge gambling. Which now I kinda recognize the pattern. I try controlled gambling, small bets etc like I am teasing myself before I just get to the point it’s isn’t…[Read more]

  • Tam posted a new activity comment 7 months ago

    You must cut the past away and walk free from it