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I am recently discovering that I have a gambling problem which is taking over my life. It all started 3 years ago when I was 18 and started university. A friend of mine invited me to the casino on a night out, and after always wanting to visit a casino I eagerly accepted the offer. We went, had a few drinks, had some fun and left happily. Yeah we'd lost our money but we only ...

Screwed up again, found one website i wasn't self excluded on, i had 1000 in overdraft.. got it down to 150 dollars... just put 600 on the website and lost it all

back to owing over 900 dollars almost on it.. i can never win

stupid instadebit, it takes funds out of your bank account a few days later..

so i'm practically just waiting for them to take the 600 out which sucks even more, ...

I went to our maryland intergroup conference today. Really inspiring.

Had about 96 people attend and it was very powerful. 2 diff. topics to choose from in 3 separate sessions - with 2 other total group topics.

Some things I heard, random notes etc., that I have been thinking about:

The "yets". When I hear a newcomer story, or even an old timers story - of all the serious trouble, pain and misery, I can ...

I copied and pasted this news article to illustrate further how legalized gambling is a way for businesses, municipalities and government to get GUARANTEED money from its citizens who might not otherwise allow themselves to be taxed out of their savings.



Suburbs Daily Southtown Southtown News
More towns seek curbs on gambling


It's a weekday afternoon at Avenue Flower Shop & Wine Bar in Oak Lawn, but nobody was in the large wine bar sipping ...

I have finally given up gambling-I used to LOVE slots so much but the sites I was playing on have had many many technical issues and their slots have gone WAY down-it is just money down the drain now and no longer fun thanks to slots going really slow and jumping and errors-I actually used to do ok on them but they have been such a joke for weeks. It's the best thing really-it's not ...

Hi everybody,

This is my second day of the second year being gamble free, after 10 years of compulsive gambling sufficiently controlled to save the facade.
I was looking forward very much to the one year GF mark in the past months. It has been a great motivator for me. I always thought it is going to be a bright sunny happy day and everything is going to be great. I would come here early ...

Hello guys, I don't even know where should I start from, so I'll just say it's my 19th birthday today and I can surely tell that it's my worst birthday in my life, I can also add that it's the day when i feel i completely hitted the rock bottom,and I do not think that I'll be able to recover from it... So let's move on to the story. I look completely normal and calm ...

Hello,

you might have noticed I haven't been showing up much in here... :)

I am no longer a moderator for the Gambling forum. While this is not (yet) reflected on top of the page, the sole moderator for Addictions, together with subforums is now NewSunRising. Some applause please!



I hope everything is okay with you ladies and gentlemen!

Hey...

Sorry to say, but I must confess I have gambled again.

I have no clue as to why I gambled, if I were to point a finger it was probably boredom and a stupid mistake.

Started small, ended bit bigger. I finally paid off my debts, bought some useful stuff and saved up around 2000. I managed to burn that 2000 by gambling.

Freaking 200 days or so without gambling, and now I am ...

Hi everyone,

Today I'm one year gamble free thanks to this forum. My first post approximately one year ago was "Laughing through tears" and I think now it's the right time to continue it (link to the first part http://www.psychforums.com/post1755567.html#p1755567).
This post is a way of me saying thanks for all of your stories and support in the past year. There is a lot of dramatic life moments shared here, but sometimes, when I read ...