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GettingPastGambling · Getting Past Gambling

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  • Members: 243
  • Category: Gambling
  • Founded: Aug 31, 2004
  • Language: English
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2518 mspurple_au Offline Send Email Mar 1, 2005
8:13 am
Hi there to all, yes i am still reading and replying occasionally. I have been watching the discussion on motivation for gambling and can't resist putting in...
2519 Rahnee
rans913 Offline Send Email
Mar 1, 2005
8:46 am
Hi Maree, yes thanks I did get home safely and tonight for one of the first nights in ages I might actually fall asleep not pondering on how much I lost/won...
2520 krnewman@...
krnewman Offline Send Email
Mar 1, 2005
3:11 pm
I must say that everyone here, baz, Peter, Linda, Terri, Maree, participating in this civilized discussion has been more gracious and considerate towards me...
2521 Stephen
steve2050b Offline Send Email
Mar 1, 2005
3:56 pm
<<< I respect everyone's approach to not gambling - because that is why we are here supporting each other. I don't think it matters how we do it. Maree >>> I...
2522 genesis102504 Offline Send Email Mar 1, 2005
8:15 pm
Now that we're free and no longer gambling, we have so much more control over our thinking. More than anything, we're able to alter our attitudes. Some members...
2523 stormy_yang Offline Send Email Mar 1, 2005
10:04 pm
"Any day you seem to be batting zero, just ask your higher power to pinch-hit for you." Love Jane My apologies for not being around the board as much. I still...
2524 ps_ot Offline Send Email Mar 1, 2005
10:10 pm
Hi Rans, "Its really weird too think about life withhout gambling" That is a very true comment when we first try to enter recovery and do not resplve in our...
2525 LindaH
tearlessgert... Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
12:29 am
"All the people we call ‘geniuses’ are men and women who somehow escaped having to put that curious, wondering child in themselves to sleep." -- Barbara...
2526 Rahnee
rans913 Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
2:20 am
Today for me is pay day. By lunch my Bank Account is choca block with Gambling money. A NORMAL Wednesday Lunch entailed me going down to the pokies starting...
2527 shan150us Offline Send Email Mar 2, 2005
2:30 am
Hi Rans, WTG I am so proud you are writing your feelings. I am happy that this is a better Wednesday. I hope you have plenty of Wednesday's typing and going...
2528 Terri Chicko
t_chicko Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
3:46 am
Hi Steve A bit depressed???? Man your lucky... I most of the time feel like I'm going to get pushed down into the floor... however that feeling is letting up a...
2529 Terri Chicko
t_chicko Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
3:49 am
What a nice guy you are. : ) I know that my husband and me would have had a much harder time if we didn't both have some pretty hilarious humor to relieve all...
2530 Terri Chicko
t_chicko Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
3:54 am
Hey Ken... I was just answering the question as written...OK OK... I've just quit. There now that is settled. Hehehe Terri ... <image.tiff> ... <image.tiff> ...
2531 krnewman@...
krnewman Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
4:19 am
... I've ... See, now you got me confused. I don't know if we can come over to your house and pee on your upholstery or not? Anyway, yes, of course, when you...
2532 krnewman@...
krnewman Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
4:23 am
... You're welcome. Keep writing....
2533 Linda
tearlessgert... Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
4:36 am
Hello Rahnee Saw your IM saying you got through lunch, good for you.............and ramble as much as you like, because in reality it is very therapeutic. ...
2534 ps_ot Offline Send Email Mar 2, 2005
4:43 am
Hi Rans, "I admit I am and was powerless over Gambling, that my life has become unmanageable." For me it took me time of self-analyses, and really honestly...
2535 Rahnee
rans913 Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
5:10 am
questions about step 1, I would like to answer this online so that is anyone has any thoughts. - Are you powerless over a lot of what happens in your life? ...
2536 Linda
tearlessgert... Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
5:15 am
I would like to answer these questions as well, but for now I have to go to work, then tomorrow and Friday I am working 1-9pm.......but will do them asap. Keep...
2537 Stephen
steve2050b Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
7:45 am
Hi Terri - Trust me it does get better on a continuous basis, although some particular days might not seem like it. I'm an optimist and always have been, but...
2538 krnewman@...
krnewman Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
1:45 pm
It doesn't matter one bit whether you can control gambling or not. All gambling is bad, and "controlled" gambling, presumably trying to limit one's losses in a...
2539 Stephen
steve2050b Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
5:14 pm
My feeling is that all gamblers have a gambling problem - it is only a matter of degree. By being a gambler, even a so-called "moderate" gambler is putting...
2540 krnewman@...
krnewman Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
6:04 pm
... Yup. That's the long and the short of it....
2541 absolute_aussie_f@...
absolute_aus... Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
8:19 pm
Hi ........................."But no matter what, this sensible lad will walk away as soon as the $20 is gone, and go back to downing 30 pots with his mates...
2542 krnewman@...
krnewman Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
9:50 pm
... Which theory? The one that 52 x 20 = 1040 and that 1 x 1000 = 1000, or the one that there are men in Australia with funny names who drink large amounts of...
2543 LindaH
tearlessgert... Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
11:06 pm
Wednesday 2nd Of March 2005 Watch your consciousness, the feeling and sensation of being aware and alive, and observe what you feel. I do not mean that you...
2544 ps_ot Offline Send Email Mar 2, 2005
11:19 pm
Hi Sharyn, Point understood - actually as an Australian male I find it fairly interesting to read someone who obviously has had nothing to do with Australia...
2545 Rahnee
rans913 Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
11:27 pm
I am going on a short break today up the coast. This place that I am going to is great. On the river, no shops for miles no clubs for miles and the only pub...
2546 Baz
baztille Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
11:34 pm
"Now, which one is "better" ? The controlled Bonzo, or the out of control Griselda?" Neither. In net terms, Bonzo is worse, since his annual net loss from...
2547 Dianna Kemp Ewald
dkewald1 Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2005
11:35 pm
Thank you, Steve.... A wonderful reminder that life sucks a whole lot less without gambling...so true. I really appreciate being on this list.. Dianna ^i^ ... ...
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