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Hey schnauzerlvr
CG life sucks!!!
And it sucks even more when you realize that if you wanna have a life at all you have to quit. You have to quit now , today , right here and right now.
Thats the time when you ask yourself , “How am I going to do this ” and “What am I going do , to clear the mess I turned my life into”.
But thats also the time when you see what a life without gambling could be.
Thats the time where you see that you can live without lies , self humiliation and depression( for the last one it will take a while I guess).
Thats the time when you see that the storm will end and the sun will come out.
No matter what damages the hurricane has done , they can be repaired.And once the storm has passed you see sadness and destruction. But you also see also hope.
Everything can and will go back to normal with the time.
And the only thing we have to do is Not to follow the storm as if we do we will never see the sun coming out and the hope it brings with it.
We should all be more possitive I think.What happened happened. The past is gone , can’t change it.But what we can change is our future and in order to do that we need to change our present.

Let the power be with you 😉

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Hi chris-m. Like you I’ve always disliked people with any kind of addiction ( even the one with gambling) and couldn’t figure it out how is it possible someone smart and intelegent to be so stupid at the same time.
But here I am. At the same situation facing the same problem.
I dont have much experience to share with you as I am quite new to this fight as well but I find writing with other people in the forum very helpfull.So I decided to pop up in your post and to wish you the best of luck in your journey.
Dont give up no matter how hard it may seem.

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Thanks Stormy and trulyshi.
I have red some of the posts in the forum and I have to say a couple of ***** with tears on my eyes recognizing my own story.
It seems we all feel almost the same way , embarrased , depressed thinking even some***** that a life end looks so much easier and the only way out.
I dont feel any of those now. I feel proud for the first time from a long time. Just sold all my electronics ( incl. my tv that I loved) and again somehow I felt good about.
The reason behind that is the fact that for the first time I didnt sell them to make money for gambling ( as I have done before). I sold them to start my escape from all this madness I turned my life into.
I feel happy , positive and confident with my decision and admition on my problem and this helps me look forward on what I can do now rather to what I’ve done.
I just hope this feeling lasts longer as it helps me fight my addiction.
Albert Einstein Quotes. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
 

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Just placed an add to sell all my electronics as my situation is really bad and I know that the next couple of months will be really hard as those are the month of the reality. No more illusions that I will take care of my debts by betting. Its only hard work from now on ( as it has always been but the profit of that work was going into the wrong hands).
I just wonder why we have to hit the bottom to realize and to confess to ourselves what is really going on.
And from what I red on the forum we are all quite gifted/intelligent people but still our minds have been blinded for so long and we kept saying that we are not addicted that we we do it for fun or profit or simply because we found out a way to beat a system.
I am trying to get a small loan to pay my rent and to return the debts that are up to date ( I know a very bad call but as you can imagine there is no way I can take money from my friends who are most probably already sick of me even though I have always managed somehow to return their money).
I feel kind of sad writing this cause I know that whoever is reading it has most probably hit the bottom as well or if he hasn’t he would think that only an insane person will gamble the money for his rent but hats the life of a gambler I guess.
One thing I know for sure. I wanna start living again the way I used to and the way we all deserve and with your help I know I can make it !
I know we can all make it!

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Hi ,Schnauzerlvr .
I am new to the site as well as confessing that I have a gambling problem.
I havn’t destroyed my live neither but I am very close to it so I think we should all remember what life used to be when the gambling wasnt part of it.
For me it will take some time to return all the debts I made but I know that if I dont gamble anymore that day will arrive. Its gonna be hard but we can make it.We can beat this illness .
There is nothing stronger than the human will and I think each one of us has plenty of it.
I suppose its hard for you not to think for gambling as you are surrounded by it , but just keep a picture in your head of what the life was without gambling and what life could be without it. For me that picture looks far better than the current one so I dont wanna gamble again ever.
Wish you good luck mate.

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