Yes, we do have some similarities. I also started in my fifties and did massive damage financially and to my health. Early recovery working through emotions also was overwhelming for me and I struggled with this. My early story is on here.
But it does pass. Like idi, I found the gma women’s programme helpful. The most helpful to me was regaining my faith and trusting my higher power. Pete said to me yesterday I have emerged out of it all a stronger person, and he is right, and a better person. A lot of things have recovered in my life and I feel blessed to have happy days.
So working through the feelings of sadness with a counsellor can help as can journaling. I went through a period of deep depression, anger and sadness but it does pass. The destruction of gambling can no longer be something we have in our lives. Not if we want to have any sort of happiness. It’s a choice and I choose me and I choose life.
And yes, there has been a tendency towards addiction in my life which now is just the smoking and a tendency to overspend. But I have started to budget and opened a savings account.
