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Hope you will grow in strength to resist the urges and temptations along the way.
Trigger can be external like the casino but it can also be internal like your thoughts, feelings and emotions
Hope you will find the coping methods to deal with them.
Well done !!! you done something you did not do for many years in the past.
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I wish you luck because this is just the begining…..it will take more than this to stay stop.
Gambling only adds to the pain, its like a painkiller that numbs the area for a while but the side affects actually make the original pain worseI must remember to count my blessingAn elder Apache was teaching his grandchildren about life.
He said to them,"A fight is going on inside me; it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego.
The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person too."
They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old Grandpa simply replied, "The one you feed"
Which thought are you going to feed
“ the one telling you to place the last bet” or
“ the one that tell you not to do it” Gambling only adds to the pain, its like a painkiller that numbs the area for a while but the side affects actually make the original pain worseI must remember to count my blessingHi Beattie, let ‘s encourage one another
Don’t start, our brake is faulty
When we start, we cannot stop
We are human not immortal,
we cannot control our thoughts,
they are automatic
There is nothing wrong about thinking and dreaming
Imagine someone with addictive behaviour
who walk into a supermarket and see all thse garbage food everywhere
If the person suddenly feel like acting out or grabbing a few bags of potato chips
It is nothing wrong, you don”t have to blame yourself or feel guilty, it is just a thought
You can think about it
You don’t have to fear it
This too will pass
You can think about it
But you don’t have to do it
When the thought pass
You will not want to do it
I m amaze of this particular one
I called someone on the phone
I told the person I want to act out
After talking to the person, if it still did not work
and I still want to do it
He ask me to delay it for 3 days
If it did not work
Call him before I act it out
3 days later, the day to act out arrive
but the thought to act out disappear
Usually I don’t need to act it out anymore and I don’t want to do it too
I m not normal, I m belong to that 2 person in a hundred
I m born different, I m wired differently
I have addictive thoughts and behaviours
With better awareness and a recovery program
My chances of survival and having happiness is higher
Beattie, don’t do it
The thought will go away
Don’t listen to this thought
Don’t feed this thought
Fact
The pain of a relapse is many times more painful than the pain of staying stop in the beginning.
Gambling only adds to the pain,
its like a painkiller that numbs the area for a while but …
the side affects actually make the original pain worseI must remember to count my blessing
— 4/10/2010 12:37:12 PM: post edited by KIN.
Dear Beattie, it is so easy to stop gambling, after every slip or relapse , we stop.
How many times have we stop gambling , I lost count myself.
The real winner is the one who is able to stay stop
it is a big mountain to climb if we promise to stop forever
it is easier to do it one day at a time
7 days make 1 week
Let ‘s do it one day at a time, beattie
together
Gambling only adds to the pain, its like a painkiller that numbs the area for a while but the side affects actually make the original pain worseI must remember to count my blessingDear Beattie, it is so encouraging to see your message in my thread, why is the first thread you read so important, what did i wrote in my thread that mean something to you….i ask myself why ?
Beattie , I m not quitting this fight, i will soldier on
Your message is important to me , thank you
Gambling only adds to the pain, its like a painkiller that numbs the area for a while but the side affects actually make the original pain worseI must remember to count my blessingDear Beattie,
Happy to see you here,
Have Faith in recovery
Do not give up recovery
" Faith is to believe what you do not see;
the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
Faith isn’t the absence of fear but the courage to walk through it
Do nothing and nothing will happen
By changing attitudes, you too, can regain a new sense of hope, serenity, freedom and joy
may you have a smoother and more successful recovery journey
Gambling only adds to the pain,
its like a painkiller that numbs the area for a while but …
the side affects actually make the original pain worseI must remember to count my blessing
— 2/23/2010 8:18:01 AM: post edited by kin.