Chapter 1: Behind Gambling Addiction
It’s rather simple, truly, once you get to the center of what it takes to stop a gambling addiction. The problem or compulsive gambler 1st has to authentically wish to quit gambling. That’s simpler said than done. A lot of problem gamblers go for years without arriving at that realization.
When and if they do, it’s frequently only a fleeting desire and not commanding enough for them to take action. That’s the 2nd basic requirement to quitting gambling: you have to go through the hard work it will take to defeat your addiction. Oh, the rationalizations quickly issue forth here.
The Beginning
• “I do not have the time. I can’t get time off work.”
• “I do not truly have that big an issue.”
• “I may stop anytime I wish.”
• “My gambling isn’t hurting anyone.”
• “What I do is my own business.”
• “I don’t need shrinks poking into my affairs.”
• “No way am I going to some rehabilitation clinic satiated with addicts.”
• “I don’t have the cash to pay for treatment and my insurance will not cover it.”
There are a lot more feeble reasons individuals tell themselves and other people about why they can’t or won’t go into treatment to defeat their gambling addiction.
Perhaps you’ve even utilized one or more of these. The point is, till you are ready to state truthfully to yourself that you authentically wish to give up gambling forever and you’re willing to do whatever work it requires to do so, you’ll never defeat your addiction. Period.
That stated, let’s presume that you do now bear the 2 basic requirements. What next? What’s truly implicated in stopping gambling addiction? What are the sorts of things that you have to do and that have to shift in your life for your recovery to be successful?
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