hi steve,
respect your post and the concerns from the relapse. but I have to progress a bit, I read alot about the addiction and relapse and no need to go to read the post that you mention, I kew exactly what you mean. I am fighting this addiction for the last couple of years.and this year i am seeing progress, i am learning from my mistakes and from the others as well but every one is different you need to taylar a strategy to fit you ( your lifeyour personality …etc).
for me I don’t want to live in a state of fear for the rest of my life, such life it is not worth living. ( you can stop gambing by putting your self in solitary confinement “metaphorically”, and you will garantee that you will not relapse, but is it a worth living life? the answer at least from my prespective is NO.
I kept some extra money and a prepaid card with me this time which is the bar mimum that i need to live a normal life ( many payments has to be payed by card in my country, and paying cash is not an option for example for the car regestration renewal ..etc) and having some extra money a small amount ( that even if I relapse it will not break me) is worth keeping so I can live a normal life again.
in a gambling termes i am risking a small amount to win my life againg. if i lost that small amount that i kept with me it will not break me and it will not effect me that much becuase the rest is protected and i don’t have access to.
a month and half passed since i got the prepaied card and a two weeks passed since the i kept the extra money with me, and as I can see the urges to gamble are fading.
again thanks for your post, but here I am trying to tayler what fits my paersonality & my life. if it goes well then this is great. if i relapse it is a controlled relapse as i mentioned above it will not hearts me too much.