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25 June 2019 at 12:22 pm in reply to: Singapour Gambler Anonymous Meeting – Veuillez mettre à jour #103852kinParticipant
WE CARE Community Services Ltd a déménagé dans son nouvel emplacement actuel.
WE CARE Community Services Ltd
Centre communautaire Kembangan-Chai Chee
Adresse : 11 Jalan Ubi, Block 5, #01-41, Singapour 409074
L'AG Singapour utilise l'une des salles de réunion de ses locaux pour les réunions de l'AG tous les lundis soirs.
25 June 2019 at 12:22 pm in reply to: Singapūro anoniminių lošėjų susitikimas – atnaujinkite #105867kinParticipantWE CARE Community Services Ltd persikėlė į dabartinę naują vietą.
WE CARE Community Services Ltd
„Kembangan-Chai Chee“ bendruomenės centras
Adresas: 11 Jalan Ubi, 5 blokas, #01-41, Singapūras 409074
„GA Singapore“ kiekvieną pirmadienio vakarą GA susitikimams naudoja vieną iš patalpų savo patalpose.
kinParticipantКомпанія WE CARE Community Services Ltd переїхала на нове місце розташування.
МИ ДОКЛАДМИ ТОВ «Громадські послуги»
Центр спільноти Chee Chee Chembangan-Chai Chee
Адреса: 11 Jalan Ubi, Block 5, #01-41, Singapore 409074
Кожного вечора понеділка GA Singapore використовує одну з кімнат для проведення засідань GA.
kinParticipantWE CARE Community Services Ltd har flyttet til sitt nåværende nye sted.
WE CARE Community Services Ltd.
Kembangan-Chai Chee Community Hub
Adresse: 11 Jalan Ubi, Block 5, #01-41, Singapore 409074
GA Singapore bruker et av møterommene i lokalene sine for GA -møter hver mandag kveld.
kinParticipantWE CARE Community Services Ltd have shifted to its current new location.
WE CARE Community Services Ltd
Kembangan-Chai Chee Community Hub
Address: 11 Jalan Ubi, Block 5, #01-41, Singapore 409074
GA Singapore use one of the meeting rooms on their premises for GA meetings every Monday evening.
kinParticipantMost of us have been unwilling to admit we were real GAMBLING ADDICT. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our GAMBLING careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could GAMBLE like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his GAMBLING is the great obsession of every abnormal GAMBLER. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were GAMBLING ADDICT. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.
We GAMBLING ADDICT are men and women who have lost the ability to control our GAMBLING. We know that no real GAMBLING ADDICT ever recovers control. All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals – usually brief – were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man that GAMBLING ADDICT of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better.
We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make GAMBLING ADDICTS of our kind like other men. We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with GAMBLING ADDICTION agree there is no such thing as making a NORMAL GAMBLER out of an GAMBLING ADDICT. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet.
Despite all we can say, many who are real GAMBLING ADDICT are not going to believe they are in that class. By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore NON GAMBLING ADDICT. If anyone who is showing inability to control his GAMBLING can do the right-about-face and GAMBLE like a gentleman, our hats are off to him. Heaven knows, we have tried hard enough and long enough to GAMBLE like other people!kinParticipantDo not be discouraged.
No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints.The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress.
We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.
Our description of the COMPULSIVE GAMBLER, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were COMPULSIVE GAMBLER and could not manage our own lives.
(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our GAMBLING ADDICTION.
(c) That God could and would if He were sought.
kinParticipantI have the urge to post this tonight because I can clearly remember reading about people who do not recover; people who do not surrender to the program completely; people who are incapable of being honest with themselves. They are the unfortunates, they are not at fault. They seem to be born that way, then there are those with emotional and mental disorders, their chances of recovery are less than average.
kinParticipantMany of us exclaimed,” What an order! I can’t go through with it.”
Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints.
The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress.
We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.
Our description of the COMPULSIVE GAMBLER, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were COMPULSIVE GAMBLER and could not manage our own lives.
(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our GAMBLING ADDICTION.
(c) That God could and would if He were sought.kinParticipantHere are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:
1. We admitted we were powerless over GAMBLING – that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.kinParticipantHOW IT WORKS
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.
Those who “do not recover” are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program,
usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average.
There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.
Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now.
If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it – then you are ready to take certain steps.
At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not.
With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.
Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.
Remember that we deal with GAMBLING – cunning, baffling, powerful!
Without help it is too much for us.
But there is One who has all power – that One is God.
May you find Him now! Half measures availed us nothing.
We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.kinParticipantHi Meghna, thank you for sharing with me.
Negative Thought: Not gambling yesterday is no guarantee for today and tomorrow.
Positive Thought: If I can stay gamble free yesterday, I can do it today and tomorrow. One day at a time
kinParticipantHow can I tell someone that they are not helping their depression if they continue to take alcohol.
How can I tell someone that I have follow instructions, attend every meetings and I still relapse.
How can I tell someone when they relapse, that it was nothing new, they only need to start all over again, you don’t need to quit recovery completely.
I hear the newcomers, what they are sharing is exactly what I go thru in my early recovery. I felt their disappointment and pain, they don’t understand why they try so hard and still relapse, but this is something each and every one of us experience before we find our balance in recovery.
kinParticipantDear diary,
There are too many of them, they are difficult to help, I wanted to walk away from them. Just when I wanted to give up helping others like me…I have to come across this story.While walking along a beach, an elderly gentleman saw someone in the distance leaning down, picking something up and throwing it into the ocean.
As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, picking up starfish one by one and tossing each one gently back into the water.
He came closer still and called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”
The young man paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean.”
The old man smiled, and said, “I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?”
To this, the young man replied, “The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them in, they’ll die.”
Upon hearing this, the elderly observer commented, “But, young man, do you not realise that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can’t possibly make a difference!”
The young man listened politely. Then he bent down, picked up another starfish, threw it into the back into the ocean past the breaking waves and said, “It made a difference for that one.”
kinParticipantHi Meghna, Thank you for the sharing with me that we need to believe and remind ourselves daily that yesterday was possible not to gamble so today and tomorrow can be the same.
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