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I have a problem with gambling and I have recently quit... but it has only been 2 weeks and the temptation has been very strong lately. I have looked for help groups in my area and there is none that are close so that is not really an option at this point.

I enjoy gambling very much....If I had more money, it could be a problem for me. You can find ways to get the fun of gambling with out actually losing lots of money. Check out www.pogo.com - sign up for basic games is at no cost.
Also, you don't have to get a book based on the situation. Pick out anything that you are interested in. The idea is to not be thinking about the problem. Anything that you engross yourself in reading will do that.
Further, not only reading can help you out. Try getting a new hobby or involved more in one you already enjoy.

Best wishes to you!

2007-08-07 10:57:15 by jen0839

Mike Burke came from a family of prominent lawyers before becoming a powerful attorney himself. He also came from a strong Irish-American family ...

i dont know any books but i do have a number for problem gambling 1 800 522 4700- this nuber is real i live in las vegas and my friend got me a pamphlet as a joke

2008-07-09 14:01:44 by stockjunkie

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I am 43 and she is 39....And I just need something to read to help me cope with the problems that come with her addictions....She still my little sister and I love her..and I don't want to lose her.
Any kind of resources will be helpfull..
She is a mean drunk...and then she doesn't remember most of the things she says and does after she's sober.

Co-Dependant No More

2006-03-16 09:00:55 by dog crazy

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Ok, this problem has recently gone way out of hand, My dad, my older sister, and me, practically my whole family, all 9 of us, disapprove of my mom gambling addiction. I work, but it seems like, on average i've spend 60 bucks for myself. all the other gone, I haven't gotten the time to get a bank account cus i'm still in school right now and working on my days off. So yah. The money i know i spent goes toward paying for my gas and phone bill, 60 goes to whatever i want to spend on. For example i make 370 a paycheck, 60 for phone and internet bill, 40 for gas, and 60 for me, all the other money is taken by my mom, without my consent or she asks me for "food money" yet i don't get no change nor receipt back, and it keeps happening so often! I can't say no, cus she make me feel guilty in a way. So its a lose-lose for me, give away my money or feel guilty. I can't do anything. Before school started, i got 4k in financial aid refunded, i've spent only 700 dollars on books and etc. All the other money, GONE!! i don't know where they went!! Is there any help for her, cus if not, i swear with all the stress of school as is, plus the financial situation i'm in, shes gonna get herself hurt, emotionally or physically by me, cus i'm on edge right now, i will pound her face in, i don't really care no more. She was never like this when we first came to America, it was just a few years ago that my stupid hypocritical aunts took her out to gamble and it was downhill from there. Any help?
i'm not gonna pound her face in, I was just expressing the anger when she she take my money and not telling me.

u shouldn't say u wanna pound her face in she's ur mum. i know ur in despair and confused at what to do but u seriously need to stop giving her money hide ur money as much as she makes u feel bad tell her ur not giving it to her because u love her. grab some pamphlets about gambling and leave them on her bed, get info from gambling anonymous, follow her and bust her so she knows she cant deny it.
if she is religious get ur local priest to talk to her and put pressure on the rest of ur family to do the same thing. darlin a sad reality is that might end up homeless and ur family all broken up so explain that if they dont want this to hapen u need to have this intervention. if there is nine in ur family someone else do the shopping and take over the other money related chores. ur dad has a real responsibility to take control of this situation b4 it spirals out of control and it will.........really really fast.
good luck wit it and just make sure u whole family gets in this as a family and stick together ur mum needs help real quick to stop this.

2008-11-17 01:26:54 by Sao V

My situation
I really need your suggestions, info, links, et cetera to get me break away from this computer addiction please. I have been living with computer since its advent, and I have been too long in this bit and byte world. I have almost no problem with my family and/or social matters (maybe), but certainly, I have problems with myself. I realize that my addiction to computer and internet has seized big values of my life. Please do not assume that I am addicted to the gaming, gambling, chatting, or sexual leisure online. I think I have really got the most of the computing and internet, I got answers for my quests in life: history, languages, hobbies, health, skill improvement, and other eye-openers, but I realized that at the end I just barely do not recognize myself. I knew that before the PC arrival, I was a simple human with a romantic and artistic mind inside, and then later I evolved to such a robot, to be precise: a slave of the technology. The internet had made me more tied to the PC, at first it delivered me the news of the world, marvelous things found there within the clicks and so on, but then made me deep drown into the pond of information.

The cost and the lost
Having knowledge to computer hardware made me always upgrade my gears. It made me spend big cost just to fulfill my lust over those times. My room is full with the old gears, gadgets, and things from online stores. My PCs and notebooks are full with MP3s, PDFs, and many things downloaded both free and paid. I also spent for many external/ portable harddisks for backing up and traveling. I do not mean to showoff, I just tell you how worse it was from time to time during about 20 years. I sometimes think about the lost time for repairing my gears, updating my softwares, browsing; and how many books that I have not read completely.

There was a break
One time, in two straight months last year, I spent my times with my son playing Tamiya, small racing cars in small tracks. It was wonderful that it made me totally forgot my computers. We have had most of the time together for racing, modifying, winding the wires for the tiny motors, etc. My wife was so amazed that the toys have made me away from the PC. It ended because of the coming rainy season that made us packed and boxed back the tracks and cars, and I simply switched back to the old routine.

In search of healing
I remember a precious phrase: Two kinds of those who lost; they are who looks for wealth and for knowledge. This phrase sometimes wakes me up but bad habit is addicting and I found myself always returned into that path. I think it is just similar to drug addiction. As the internet is an endless resource, I search through it for the cure, and I have found some articles about it and tried to implement them, but it always hard for me to liberate myself from my habit. I really hope that finally I find it in this forum, especially from you.

Your helps, Please
I know that some of you are familiar to manage some types of dependence, or maybe you have healed from the same situation. Whether you have some psychological, spiritual expertise, certain medication, or exercises, please share your advice, I need it badly. I do not want to clog the rest of my life in that digital world. There must be somebody else also in pain from the same thing, your kind suggestion will be very valuable and it will save some life. Thank you very much for sparing your time reading this lengthy note. God bless you.

PS:
I post this in Computing & Internet, Health, and Social Science with time interval, hoping to net more inputs.
Please do not waste your time to put any unpleasant or unnecessary words, consider it will not only read by me but also by the other fellow readers. If you are not in the same situation with me, you perhaps still have the advantage of knowing the answers. Thank you, again.

You obviously enjoy it, however you have let it take over. It would seem that you like writing, why not try devoting your energy into writing a book?
This could involve your family, give you some contact still with the computer but keep you off the net. i would suggest that you discuss this with your family and decide upon an amount of time that you can do this each day, with a couple of days that are non computer days.

Am afraid that this is not expert advice, addiction to anything is difficult to break. you are the only one who can decide to change what you do. Looking for help is a start but to implement a change must come from you. You need to reprogramme your habit and replace it with something you and your family will benefit from.
Good luck.

2006-09-15 15:42:41 by Taufiq