Hi I D I
Just spent 90 mins writing a reply to your honest post only to find it’s disappeared.
Did you delete it, or was it removed?
Anyway I might be way off the mark here and am sure you’ll put me straight if I am.
I don’t know when it is you last gambled and it’s not really correct for me to speculate, but reading between the lines of the missing post, I would think it was quite recently.
I had to read that post half a dozen times but did get the gist of it eventually.
We all come to GT for the same reason, to get support or help with our own battles against compulsive gambling. I think that sometimes it is easy to forget this and get involved in other people’s situations too heavily, and that does our own recoveries no good at all.
I wouldn’t let anyone or anything said prevent me from posting about my own problems, even if I thought somebody was getting kicks out of seeing me struggle or suffer.
I might be completely wrong IDI but I reckon that you’ve gambled recently and can’t bring yourself to post about it, and if I’m right and that is the case you are not doing yourself any favours.
Never mind what others think or say if you are struggling spill the beans, confession is good for your recovery. I must be honest and say that since you posted you were going on holiday and then never posted anything about it ( the holiday), I’ve thought something went wrong. I do hope that I’m wrong about this.
Nobody is doomed to a life of gambling hell, nobody. And no body will convince me otherwise.
A few months ago you posted about things you didn’t want to see on your thread, but if people only tell us what we want to hear then what is the point of such a forum as this?
Deflecting from our own issues is a big trait amongst CGs, I do really hope I’m wrong, but I think you are doing exactly that.
I’m not going on at you, it’s your life and you’ve used this forum long enough to know how recovery works.
Sorry if I’m wrong, out of interest when is the last time you gambled.
Got to go I’m at work
Take care
Geordie.