Captain Kirk

I thought it a good idea that I publically say I have a gambling problem here to all of you.
You :ghug2 have all helped me so much with my alcoholism (81 Days today ) I'm hoping you will also be able to help me fix my gambling problem.

Anna

Hi Aldo,

I think addiction is addiction and many of us have more than one addiction or have addictive personalities. I hope we can help you with your gambling problem.

SaTiT

I hope you find a way to stop your gambling problems too.
Is there GA in your area ?

I get almost the same withdraws on weekends when i was gambling.
I gets the shakes.lol i means..it's like 50 -100 miles to a casino.
I put over 30,000 miles on my car in one year.lol

No GA in my aera..but admmiting I had a problem was a big,big,big
step.

I finally stopped by substition. I purchased a kick butt slots, poker
vedio game. Didn't hook it up to the net thou :rof
It was all numbers to me at the casion after a while anyways.
Same as vedio game addiction bascially.
I played that game for 2 months...My brain wasn't getting stimulated
by the rush of winning real money...But hell, I slam all of it back anyway
if I was at the casino. I bascailly got tired of playing the game
becuase a breeze or whirl wind went through my brain.
"This is a waste of my time"

I'm almost getting there on a lot of my other issues.
I've admmited i have problems with it.

parentrecovers

i appreciate your honesty, aldo. support out to you, k

Rusty Zipper

aldo, way back... there was mention of perhaps overdoing the gambling...

we can tend to enhance addictions, or move on to another...

and they may come in many forms...

i believe i mentioned the Garlic Clove... its time to start peeling it...

happy you came to terms with it, and i bet (woops, no pun intended) your way happier then i am...

happiness is a inside job...

good wishes coombah!

rust

caitlin666

81 days sober.............geesh.........fantastic

now you can apply yourself to the gambling too

come on aldo you can do it

RK2007

Aldo, 81 one days is fantastic!!!

Gambling better watch it, because if it's facing you it doesn't really stand a chance!!!

Way to go Aldo, get it beat we all believe in you!!!

Captain Kirk

I don't believe you did. What's that about then?

SaTiT

it's just an anology Aldo.
Sometimes life is like an analogy, becuase we're complicated people.
an anlogy keeps it simple, somtimes it help me to get the bigger
picture or a bird's eye veiw of what's hapening to me

I myself like to peel onions...i weep when i peel onions.lol
There's layers and layer of it..and when i get to the
center of the onion...there's nothing.lol
nothing to hold me down.

the garlic...well i havn't head of that before...but that's
a good thing...i like hearing stuff i havn't heard of before.

I'm think it's along the line of a garlic is a garlic (addiction is addiction)
But when you break a garlic clove..it breaks into indiviual pieces.
So..I'm thinking.lol...if i need to go to NA for my drugs addiction
I go to NA..For my gambling addiction i go to GA
and If I have other issues...i need to face them and work on
them as will. Just stoping using or gambling is not going
solve all my problems...Cuase oneday..I get into the.. what now ?lol

i don't know what RZ means by that..
But that's how it's helping in my recovery...it's the message of recovery.

congrats..
recovery is a trip.

See... i just had brain fart.lol
I think it has to do with balance becuase of the many pieces of a garlic.
I've always struggle with a balance life style.
But the cloves of a glaric are not all equal...but that's okay.
As long as acknowlege the many aspect of my life..
unity dosn't have to be uniformaty..gralic cloves exist in such a way.

Is that what U ment RZ ??lol

Captain Kirk

Thanks for sharing your intrepretation of the garlic. Very interesting.

Yea me too. I do everything in extreme. My friends say whatever I do, or don't do, I always do "all or nothing at all". It's no good, and I know it. But it's just the way I am.
I have serious problems. :codiepolice

Captain Kirk

Not gambling today. I choose to stay in bed till 5pm rather then go to play the slot machines.
My gambling caused me to do something very irresponsabile yesterday, have a look at my thread below.

Rusty Zipper

aldo SaT, your close...

aldo our friend...

think of a onion.. the many layers of skin it has...

in recovery... what we use is only a part of our problem... booze/drugs/sex/gamblin/ect...

when we get to the root of our problem... us...!!!

its time to take the good look... we start peeling the layers of what we are all about, and what makes us tick, so to say...

so, in our case aldo... because we are italiano, i use the garlic bulb, instead of the traditional onion..! lol


good wishes aldo...

and thanks SaT

rz

SaTiT

Holly schmolly RZ

I work in garden cuz i'm a garden veriety.lol

I had to remove a couple of tree stumps not too long ago
Roots everywhere going every directions embeded
in there. I kept at it thou...it wasn't as easy as i thought
it was going be...but i kept at it and i kept at it.
Cuz there where pretty big arss trees.lol
The used the shovel, i used the axe, I used the saw and whatever tools i had.lol
I wanted to use dynamite but they were to close to the house.lol
The ground where the stumps used to be is nice an smooth now

Sometimes the body has to go first before the mind catches up..you know
what I'm saying.

Rusty Zipper

SaT Ka-Booooooooooooooooom!

thats was my case... i'm feel'n ya!

Marius

I had a gabling problem from ages 18 to 24. I would bet on whatever I could, horse racing, sports, casinos, etc. Gambling was a progressive disease for me, when I started off I was wagering small amounts, by the end I was betting with money I didn't have. Losing made me miserable, and that is why I quit. I still gamble once in a while, a wager on a sporting event, or I'll play poker on the internet, I do it mostly for entertainment purposes, because I know you can't win gambling in the long run. They don't build billion dollar casinos because they plan on losing money!:rof

Captain Kirk

That's very interesting. Thanks for that.
I must say I never thought of it like that but since I've been on the wagon again I must be getting to the root of the aglio because I suppose I could say I'm being more introspective then usual and I'm finding allot of faults with myself and the life I'm conducting. And up untill now I was rather annoyed and sad that instead of being happy that I'm sober I was distressed that my life (social; sexual; professional ect etc) isn't really working.
So I guess I need to keep looking inwards to get to the heart of the aglio in order to resolve whatever issues are awaiting me their.

Captain Kirk

I'm not too sure if I've understood what you mean, but from what I have understood what you're saying is that first we need to get psyically better and then we have to get psychologically better too, right?

Rusty Zipper

hey aldo, for me, i got spiritualy better first, then the body, mind and my life!...

think about it?

more good wishes!

rz

SaTiT

Sometimes for me...
Becuase I don't know what to do..I feel like I don't have answers to my
problems. Or i feel like I'm in a rut.
or there's a hole that i dug or i painted myself into a coner.
So ..I'll think about my problems becuase there so many problems
sometimes or I feel overwhelm.
I get tired just thinking about it and don't do anything about it.

I looked at those damn stumps for weeks .lol

I have to take actions..posistive actions.
I can't change or repair my life over night.
But I do the best with what i have.
Taking baby steps.
Something..i have to change my life. i have to change my routine
i have to change me.
Those simple shores has hidden answer or wisdom to my problems.
Well at the very least..I stopped thinking about my problems.
Then the answers just comes...becuase my body was moving,
taking posistive actions..and my mind was still in the problems
or still wanna go gamble, use, or feel sorry for myself.
My mind resist changes.

Then i have an ahha moment or a brain fart.lol
Some people call that a spiritual awakening...
it's an awakening of sorts becuase I'm in a different state of mind...
becuase i was doing something different.. diging out the stumps
instead of looking at it...Once I get into taking posistive actions..
then it starts rolling in a posistive way.


well...just think about it for a moment...
when I went gambling ...i just went.lol
i didn't think about the consiquences I just went.lol
But it when comes to taking responsibilites for my life...i think about it
for a while :rof

so sometimes..the body has to move first
becuase AA stands for Action, Action.lol

Captain Kirk

Yea, SaTiT, that's just it. In the past 82 days that I havn't been drinking the only action I've taken is to not drink. But other then that I havn't changed anything else about how I live my life. I'm still in the same routine I was in when I was drinking. I guess I'm going to have to change my routine somehow.