Thank you Emma
I read on your thread that you are doing really well – I am so pleased for you.
In two weeks I will be six months gamble free – when I was on the residential no matter how much they said we would stop I kept thinking I will be the one who won’t . I didn’t think I had it in me to stop after trying for such a long time .
…And yet here I am.
I notice recently that I find myself having fleeting thoughts about doing the lottery – I know the addiction well enough to know that this is its way in. The lottery has never been a problem for me but has always paved the way for a return to slots. I guess this is what they meant when they told us awareness is super important .
So I am not fighting urges to gamble in slot machines – I am challenging more frequent fleeting urges to gamble on the lottery.