Hello Fritz have just read through this whole thread and am pleased to see you are getting through each day as it comes.
I too have read the Easy way book, and I must admit that since I read it I havn’t had a single urge to gamble. I hadn’t gambled for a few months before I did read it but I did come close to on one occasion. I think it would be a good idea for you to read it again after a few weeks or months of being gambling free. I’m sure that our thought process is heavily distorted in the first couple of weeks following a gambling spree/binge/episode.
Another book that I think you might find helpful is No Big Deal by John Coates. He’s a recovering addict of 15 years.
I also think that where ever we seek support, ( be it here, GA, doctors, hypnotists, counsellors or anywhere else), and then we return to gambling, it isn’t the support that dosn’t work its us as individuals.
I think to live a good life without gambling, without the desire to gamble we have to change a hell of a lot, but it can be done. As individuals we are the ones who created our own gambling problems, (obviously not intentionally), I therefore think we have to be the masters of our problems demise. However its only common sense that we should strive to get as much support as possible along the way.
“Just for today” and “One day at a time” are widely used clichés and catchphrases and for good reason too, they work!
Take care.
Geordie.