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Hi Sophie, first of all my apologies. I have had to change your user name as an email address is not appropriate. See our terms and conditions for details (to view click on “Site Map”)
Your user name is now Sophie123 your password will be unaltered.
Thank you for sharing your story here. I am glad that the book has helped you. Sadly though there is no “cure” for addiction. Also no one thing that helps everyone. People have mentioned that book before and then gambled. Same with other support – here, Gamblers Anonymous, Gamcare (in UK), counselling or whatever, there is no “silver bullet.”
It is a tough addiction and generally requires tough steps to tackle it. I’m not sure where that high success you quote comes from? I recommend starting a thread in the My Journal Forum then you can let people know about the changes you have made, tell us about positive steps you are taking and how you are filling your gamble free time. From experience I would suggest that on going support is important to maintain recovery,
I look forward to reading your recovery journey or meeting you in one of the groups we have here.
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Thank you for clarifying there is no “silver bullet” 🙂
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Hello Charles. I have a follow up question in regards to the success rate of gamblers who try to quit on their own cold turkey. I’ve heard this is about 2-5% . For those of us who are embarrassed , dont want to talk about gambling or think about gambling ever again until the urge creeps up 1 week later… 1 month later… 1 year later whatever it may be . How do people like prevent relapse?
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Hi Taylor,
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nI have no idea what the stats are and don’t really care about them either. What we all have to do as individuals is make sure that we are included in the success percentage.
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nWhenever our next urge to gamble is whether you act on it depends largely on what we do now and before that happens. If nothing has changed then we are just as likely to act on it then as we have been in the past. Words, promises and intentions don’t stop people from gambling – actions do.
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nWe don’t have to think about gambling/recovery all the time; I only think about it at the weekly GA meeting I go to (currently on zoom). Also in the groups when I’m facilitating here. Outside of that there are a lot more interesting things in life other than gambling.
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nI don’t know or care what the success rate at GA is either. I do know however that the people who I see marking their gamble free anniversaries tend to be the ones who are there most weeks. The ones who have put barriers in place, worked recovery etc
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nSo look at what you can DO, look at the things you can change. You can post about those things here if you start your own thread in the My Journal Forum.
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nIt is a tough addiction and takes tough steps to tackle it, often steps we don’t particularly want to take. The thing is though it is also a progressive addiction. So we have to decide whether we take action now……or later when deeper in trouble.
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nThe question you asked was how do we prevent relapse. The short answer would be that if nothing changes, nothing changes. So what are you going to change? Again, I recommend writing the answer to that question on your own thread in the My Journal Forum. Maybe connect to some of the groups here as well. Open Groups are unmoderated so no guarantee of anyone being there. ALL other types of group have someone like me in them to talk to. Hopefully see you there at some point.
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