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Recently scientists have classified gambling addiction as a neurobiological disorder, a chemical dependency of the brain similar to those addicted to drugs such as cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and alcohol. According to these scientists, gambling is a drug because its psychoactive effects are similar to tangible drugs. For example, under an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan, the affected areas of the ...

Hi all,

I was waxing poetically about my life as a compulsive gambler, lender and spender. Here is what I came up with:

All my life I prayed to you
Money monkey
You owned me
Controlled me when I was broke
When my family had nothing
When I had nothing
Then when I had you
I threw it all away

Now I'm on the outside looking in
Trying to let you go
Money monkey
Set ...

DON'T GIVE UP! FIND THE DOOR, MOVE ON, AND KEEP MOVING!

PRAY AND ACT ON WHAT YOU BELIEVE WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU CAN DO!

http://youtu.be/wtSKzHxVqxQ

LET HEALING FLOW...

http://youtu.be/Bo1bjTOFbZA

I'm a rather analytical person and did a lot of research into gambling after I lost a ton of money to the habit.

I was very naive when I started with it. I met a guy who was playing online poker and making $100k a month for almost a year. And he started with a free $50. I saw this with my own eyes and thought I'm also smart so I can do this too. ...

Dear Forum members,

I have gambled most of my life, primarily with slot machines. I also played the lottery and bet on dogs. It got so bad in August I started having very dark thoughts. My VA therapist strongly encouraged me to seek outpatient treatment with a gambling specialist. Since then I have gambled 3 times, losing a total of $700 during a two-week psychotic/depressive episode in October that landed me again in the psychiatric ...

howdy,

My wife and I are addicted slot machine gamblers.

Last year, we spent nearly 30,000.00 on Slot machine. We actually stopped going to the casinos altogether for almost a year, until three months ago, my wife had asked me to stop by a casino and play few dollars. Unfortunately, we have been going ever since, and has cost us 8,000.00 so far.

of course I feel so bad loosing that much money which I ...

Think about it,would you rather lose 10k at a casino or give me $2500 and keep the rest:) You'd be helping me enormously AND saving yourself a lot of money in the process.

All jokes aside...

Here are some tips to stop gambling:

1- cancel all your credit and debit cards so you cannot make deposits online anymore. Just get an atm card that works in stores too but not online.

2- ban yourself from ...

Here is a link to a trailer from an upcoming documentary on compulsive gambling.
http://blip.tv/bill-kearney/bill-kearne ... ary-713736

This trailer is only a few minutes long, but it is so dead-on, and parts are humorous. It contains a revealing excerpt from a 1960 Twilight Zone episode about a couple who win a trip to Las Vegas, and the husband becomes addicted to slots. The clip made me curious, so I ...

Ok so lets make a long story short. There is 1 casino that was of driving distance that was 18 and over, and when I turned 18 I went there a number of times and kept losing lots of money so I banned myself. That fixed my gambling problem for a bit because no other casinos were 18 and over around. Next thing you know I saved up a good amount of money, but then ...

Nearly a year after losing £3,300 in one morning, the wife has finally had enough and kicked me out.

She has given me multiple warnings on what would happen if I did it again, I've had at least six relapses since then, culminating in the last one on Sunday afternoon, which left me £1820 worse off
The final warning came last month when I wion £4020 leaving a profit for the session of £3700 and ...