March, 2009 Archive

Willpower! I had plenty. I could stop any time I wanted. I can tell you point blank, I must have stopped at least a thousand times. Stopping wasn’t difficult for me. That was easy. As I’ve said, I’ve must have…

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Coming very soon will be our ‘Discussions for Recovery” series in which we welcome our readers to participate in the conversation in our forums after reading the post.

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Carol’s gambling, financed by 13 credit cards, left her $100,000 in debt. Her husband left her and she
filed for bankruptcy.
“At that point I still thought I could gamble normally. Then the following March I missed my house
payment. I called my…

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Looking back on it, Bill Lee, author of Born to Lose: Memoirs of a Compulsive Gambler (Hazelden, 2005), realizes that his gambling addiction began in the third grade when he would wager his cherished baseball card collection in “pitch the…

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