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Keep counting days!

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portnoy58
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Well done darkenergy0138,I hope you continue to drink deeply from the joy of not being out of control. But don’t forget that it took you years to get here so you are unlikely to arrive at a solution in a handful of days ; 30 days to six years sort of ratio thing. Someone used to say to me back in the early days: hey Portnoy now you have stopped gambling there are three situations when you are most vulnerable to gambling again: firstly when you are really happy, secondly when you are really down …. and when I asked what is the third situation he replied any other time in between the highs and the lows.

I know of one indivdual who went back out for more action after 22 years: he came back to a GA meeting brimming over with self-pity and he was told unceremoniously by the chair that his problem was he had started counting the years and not the days and he was reminded that he should stay for the whole meeting and not, as was his habit, to slope off at the half way break!

There is no quick fix to this insanity. Work it on a daily basis and be grateful for any period of 24 hours you can achieve
without gambling. Good luck.