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    • #8463
      izzi25
      Participant

      In the shadows
      I tried to hide
      A safe place to hold onto my pride

      It started off innocent
      endless possibilities was the dream I sought
      till this dream consumed everything I ever bought

      It was me against my world
      It was me against my family
      And now I try to make sense of what has become of my identity

      It was just one dollar, that turned into five
      Eight years later and this expense has cost my life

      The mirror tells a story of a hurt little girl
      My tired reflection is my own demise
      Creating my own hurt and broken world

      I now fear the shadow
      the silence of the darkness
      because it has consumed all that I was

      It started off as an innocent dream
      money was going to set me free
      now I am consumed in a jail with no bars
      and I still don’t know how I let it go this far

      But I know I must stop
      I know I need help
      maybe somewhere there is still hope for me
      All I know this is not my destiny

    • #8464
      Anonymous
      Guest

      Love this…it really, does start out that simple Izzi. We make a prison for ourselves…but you know what? We can break out , we can slowly file the bars in the window frames and eventually climb out to freedom!

    • #8465
      shohelsarker3
      Participant

      I am going

    • #8466
      shohelsarker3
      Participant

      I am going

    • #8467
      overboard
      Participant

      thats good honest writing right there, hard to read as it is close to me, but appreciate that we arent alone.

    • #8468
      izzi25
      Participant

      that is the story of my life, started gambling because I hated my family so much (was so hurt by them) always felt like an outsider, cg was completely out of character. And I just wanted to make money and move out and be independant but it ended up eating me, still is eating me financially (paying the price for so many years of cg)

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