Step One tells us that admitting our gambling defeat is humiliating and we naturally resent this show of weakness.
- This opposes our instincts.
- Destruction is at hand when we gamble.
- We are at war with ourselves when attempting to gamble denying our failure and unwilling to admit our weakness.
Discuss with your sponsor or counselor or another fellow member:
A) When did we first discover and/or sense the problem of our compulsive gambling ?
B) Describe instances that prove we can no longer gamble normally.
In GA we discover that admitting our gambling problem to others has become the foundation on which our recovery will be built.
- Our foundation can only be as strong as our continued belief that we are powerless.
- Our reservation about powerless over gambling (doubt), block our recovery.
Discuss with your sponsor or counselor or another fellow member:
A) Has acceptance of our “powerlessness” grown while attending meetings ?
B) Have we stopped searching for answers and causes of our gambling problem and started to deal with the problem on a daily basis ? ? Explain
Step One announces we are instinctively shocked when told that “will power” and self-knowledge will not break our obsession to gamble.
Discuss with your sponsor or counselor or another fellow member:
A) How has “will power” failed in the face of gambling ?
B) What is the meaning of the slogan “KEEP IT SIMPLE” ?
C) Have we begun to come to Gamblers Anonymous for our own personal survival - - not to satisfy others ?
Our failing brought us to GA. By admitting and accepting our problem we become willing to listen and remain open-minded.
Discuss with your sponsor or counselor or another fellow member:
A) How we learn by attending meetings regularly ?
B) Are regular meetings a chore or source of relief ?
C) Has our ability to listen improved steadily or are we bored at times ?
D) Is Gamblers Anonymous our mirror ?
3 comments:
Hi read your blog and i hope you will overcome this gambling problem soon. I was in a similar situation as u some time ago and it took alot of drastic events to made me change my ways.
Hope others do not fall into this wicked path cos it takes hell lot of effort to walk away and the scars will always remain.
And I hope people who are out there trying to make a quick buck from persuading others to gamble do realise that they are actually earning horrible kind of money. The amount may be good but I doubt that they will earn it happily.
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