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As I was posting on another board, I was curious what was your Rock Bottom?

Usually, it takes a Rock Bottom for someone to finally change things around really get on the path of recovery. If you didn't hit a Rock Bottom, what did you do mentally to change things around. I wish I was in the second category, so I wouldn't have wasted so much of my life...

For me, my Rock Bottom was ...

I hate myself today. I borrowed my sister's money who I love so much and lost it. I was hoping I could win and pay her back. I feel so bad. Yea, I hate myself today.

Lately I've been so broke living paycheck to paycheck. I actually used my rent money and my own mom's money to gamble to try and get ahead with some money. I almost lost it all but I was lucky ...

Compulsive gamblers face a unique and daunting challenge. They think that the problem is the overwhelming satisfaction they receive from winning money that leads to the addiction, therefore, to them, gambling is the behavioral means to the end to which they become addicted.

If you can realize anything about this baffling and insidious illness, realize this: Even if a genie granted your wish of winning every time you gamble, and thus you had all the ...

Has anyone diagnosed with BPD also been diagnosed with a pathological gambling addiction? If you have, once you have gone through the DBT treatment to deal with the BPD issues have you noticed a positive effect on the pathological gambling and the impulsiveness to do that?

For me i've always knew I had the pathological gambling addiction and tried many a time to correct and fix the issue always with severe relapse. Only recently did ...

If you gamble all day and win you're called a pro. If you gamble all day and lose you are a problem gambler.

I mean: why do all problem gamblers I know lose so much and so often?
We lose much more often than it is mathematically expected.
Take for example my game - roulette. The house edge is 2,7%. This means that in order to lose $2,7K I should first make total bets of ...

Hope all finds you well!
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Here I am laying in bed just wanting to die as I relapsed yet as again. 41 years of age now and not got no job and no life whatsoever. I try and go to the gym and save my money from the sick for months and months and don,t gamble for weeks and then I my mind says “go on just try small money to pass time and I start off betting 2 pounds ...

I have just read an interesting book. It's called "Change Anything" by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Al Switzler, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan...

It feels like a genuine book with a lot of tips in. They say that it's not our willpower that fails us when we fail to change... no matter if we want to lose weight, quit gamble or go to bed on time in the evening.
There are 6 influencers that affect us. ...