Self-excluding from brick and mortar casinos

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Normally , we disallow the use of extra large fonts in posts , but I think in this case , an exception can be made .

I self excluded on March 2018, in New York State. I self excluded for Lifetime. I can never go into a American casino in New York State for the rest of my life. I’m a female at 67 years of age. However, I can still go into the Native (Indian casinos). The Native casinos are hours away. And the great thing about that is I don’t drive. So, I am through!

Yes I have this disease. My disease is "sleeping" or non active when I am clean.

It will be an active disease if I gamble, and the fast destruction begins.

I need to put as many barriers between myself and a next bet. The barriers include: GA meetings, exclusion, writing, sharing, dealing w/ life without the escape, finding other ways to get the "feel good" brain chemicals going, strengthen relationships, hobbies, stabilize financial footing.

Exclusion WAS and IS KEY in my recovery, in my ability to stay away from gambling.

I could not trust myself. I could not risk the fact that I may not make it back out of gambling to the "life side" again.

Especially early in recovery -- it was so easy to point my car in the wrong direction and be off.

For me, this is not an option w/ exclusion. I was ready. One of the single BEST THINGS I ever did.

Exclusion is a very powerful too. I also excluded in NY state and I live in Toronto! I excluded from all the casinos in my province and if by a whim I thought I'd drive to the US, I excluded in NY just in cases.

As uskat has beautifully said:

uskat wrote:I need to put as many barriers between myself and a next bet.

I strongly believe in that and heard of similar phrases when I was in therapy. If some of those barriers fail, I need to fall back on other ones and make it as hard to gamble as possible. That will give me the best chance of success against this addiction.