I don’t think it’s a question of cold feet. I definitely have accepted my addiction, I’m not living in a dream world where I think everything is rosy and ok, where I can have one bet and be fine with it, it’s not like that at all.
As I’ve said previously my mindset about gambling has completely changed. To me, whenever you watched the likes of Jeremy Kyle or other such tripe for instance, rehab was always the last resort. The end game, the final solution if you will. For me, I haven’t really tried anything else, I have just jumped straight to it.
Part of me thinks that I can beat this without rehab, My mind tells me that it’ll be three months of “coping”, therapy classes and other such things that teach you techniques of how to stay away, how to recognise what to do if you slip up into the old ways. Personally I think it just boils down to pure willpower, same as smoking, same as dieting. Has an individual got what it takes to say no and stay strong to themselves knowing what will happen if they don’t?
That’s how I’m seeing things anyway and it’s worked for a month so far. I don’t plan on changing that fact anytime soon.
Aidan