Yes, I completely agree with you here. Although, I think if we took it to a court of law, the blame squarely rest on the addict for any misdemeanours or crimes committed during the addiction. I remember watching a documentary about a woman who committed not one but two acts of major fraud to finance her gambling and was in prison on a very lengthy sentence, it was between five and ten years as I recall. That is how far this addiction can take us, down a very dark road indeed. I have plummeted to my rock bottom and that is exactly what it feels like, a big fall. Mine was the potential of being on the streets and losing my home, bankruptcy and destitution, losing my health and my marbles. That was enough for me and really had gone way way too far down the road to ruin. I do say that I can feel the distance between myself and the on line slots. Although I occasionally dry run and play free slots on the free bingo, when I am bored, this does not in any way give me an urge to gamble. In the past it did, but there is no desire in me at all to play for money on line. I am feeling the distance but also feeling the closeness if you get what I mean. The bonus rounds on shamans dream spring to mind which was my preferred poison, it was the colour, a deep blue, and that is coming from someone trained in colour therapy. I swear to god if I had loved fairy stories so much as a child, I might not have got so hooked on some of these slots, i.e. Jack and the beanstalk etc. I always played the fairy story ones more than the others. The thought of putting in thousands to these sneaky on line sites makes me feel slightly nauseous now, and that isn’t the triple therapy!
