Wayne

Wayne posted a new activity comment 1 months, 1 weeks ago

Thanks/ When I read this it reminds me of the seemeingly endless cycle.. loose control, loose all the money, feel anxiety , stress continually, stop gambling , go to ga meetings, gain confidence, feel better, stop going to ga meetings, forget the bad experiences gambling , all nighters, bank problems, very high anxiety, ebentually sabgatoge…[Read more]

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Wayne posted an update in the group Community 1 months, 1 weeks ago

Good morning . Just a checkin which I rarely do. I am not free of the gambling ocasional urges but I started to protect me from myself little over a year ago (again) by excluding myself )3 years)from all casinos in British Columbia (slot player). Too bad I wasnt more willing 16 years ago when I first came around GA. Life is now and wiill always be…[Read more]

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Wayne posted an update in the group Community 2 months ago

I have struggled with progressive compulsive ( and it can be very progressive) gambling for over 16 years when i attended my first GA meeting. Periods of abstinence but as usual forgetting psain, all nighters, credit cards etc. and feeling thid timre i will have some control. Last Septe,mber was m,aybe one of my most destructive gambling binges…[Read more]
- Trace36 replied 1 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Bless your heart ❤️
- Lindy replied 1 months ago
  
  Good for you… that’s what we seek most is ‘self esteem’ Believing in ourselves again… You can do it… (Lindy)
Wayne posted a new activity comment 3 months, 2 weeks ago

I hope you can stop hating yourself . there is zero reason. We can view ourselves or others as bad when we have a mental and emotional illness. It is vitally important to realise that even if stupid mainstrem society hasnt yet. They should have ads on tv depicting devasted gamblers as a deterrent just like pics of a rotting lung on a cigerette package.

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Wayne posted an update in the group Community 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Todays GA One Day at a Time reading Oct. 5 was exactly what I needed. It’s easy to go down a rabbit hole of unhealthy thinking when not exposed to external healing words.
Wayne posted an update in the group Community 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Reading these posts (its been too many days from reading) it really helps. Today reading one thing I recognise is for me is another attraction is not so much the winning but that feeling of danger , despersation then suddenly a win even if only temporary.
Wayne posted a new activity comment 8 months, 2 weeks ago

These comments are a good reminder of all the times, so many times I had big winnings thinking this is great i finally
have a great “win”. Problem was I was thinking this while I still hadnt left the casino. Before the addiction progressed there were
some times I actually left with money. Later anger and frustration why didnt I leave earlier.…[Read more]

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Wayne posted a new activity comment 8 months, 2 weeks ago

I had some periods of great enjoyable abstinence but periods sometimes long when I went back
were progeressivlly worse over the years, worse and worse. Looking back it all started when I got busier at work, fewer GA meetings(went to several a week then none). Looking back thre was this hole, emptiness that was filled by just going to the casino…[Read more]

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Wayne posted a new activity comment 1 years, 3 months ago

I am exploring filling the void as well. Over time as I went to fewer meetings and on reflection it was atually the boredom/lonlieness
that got me to walk back in the casino doors

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Wayne posted a new activity comment 1 years, 3 months ago

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Wayne posted a new activity comment 1 years, 3 months ago

They call it “Game Break”. Usd to b called “Self Exclusion” which is what it really is. If someone is not a compulsive gambler they can just take their own “break”. I recently did th max, 3 years but would have done longer because I have not gabled for3 years before. BUT the first bet to a compulsive gambler is same as first drink/ drug to…[Read more]

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