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Leading from another posting on here would really love to hear from people about activities that kick boredom (one of my biggest problems) away. I feel that as ex gambling addicts, we may be a group that are prone to boredom more than most. We were fed a buzz, an excitement and living on the edge for so long our brains may be easily led into a boredom state without that stupid buzz.

I am ...

We get brainwashed by companies and completely lose judgement when we play. They take advantage of that vidden weaknes that society can't see.

Ok, read some story's on here which has compelled me to change my ways.

I have been gambling for around 15 years now, tommorow I am going to tell my partner my debts due to gambling , I feel this is the right thing to do as I know it needs to stop as my debt is racking up.

I feel two ways about this - excited that I am going to finally bring gambling ...

I've been thinking about the things I did when I was still gambling and thought it might make sense to sort of "confess" some of the stuff that we did.

This came to me the other night when I left my iPad in the car and had to go out and get it around 11 o'clock. My wife was in bed so I opened the door quietly so as not to wake her and got ...

Hello all,

I'm still quite new around here, but I've seen that Gambling is currently affecting a lot more than just one generation or gender. We see woman and man here, young and not so young. Some, like me used to be more online gamblers, others went to casinos. So we have lots of different profiles, but there is something that i was figuring out.
We can definitely tell that some of us (forum users) ...

Man man, this feeling I have right now, I wouldn't give it to my worst enemy. My soul is burning, my body is empty..

I am 27 years old and been playing poker for 8 years now. I consider myself as a decent poker player, also people in the poker comunnity have respect for my game. However, Im self destructive. I build up money playing poker, just to blow it off to the pit games. ...

This time I lost my own mother's money at the casino. It feels like $#%^. I was already depressed before going, but I thought about the highs from gambling and went back to chase money and those highs. When will this stop? I am definitely hooked and addicted. I try stopping, but there are always the compulsions that come up later on. They seem almost uncontrollable, at least with me.

The mental exhaustion from having a gambling problem is totally getting to me. I went on a complete bender at the casino this weekend after being "clean" for two weeks. I was up a very significant amount of money and then stayed like an idiot wanting "just a little more"... and you know the story, I gave it all back and way more. I left down almost as much as I was up. I have ...

Im so sick of the gambling, but I always go back as I have no life.

No friends in my city, no hobbies, a joke of a job, nothing but my crappy apartment.

I cant play sports or work-out due to injuries. That is what I did before to build time between my gambling.

Anyway, for the first time in my life my debt is personal and for the last 4 months I havent been ...

Okay. I am ready to admit gambling has definitely crossed from a fun pass time to a life changing addiction.
I always knew I thought too much about slots and gambling but it wasn't a problem since we live far enough from a casino and so I only visited once or twice a year and under the watchful eye of my husband who always knew when we were done and would suggest strongly it was ...