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This is the part that you non-addicts cannot relate to: After the money is gone, the addict is overwhelmingly desperate to keep gambling. The brain juices are flowing. You are in the casino, you have made the drive, you have broken all the barriers you have put up to protect yourself, you have already been gambling for hours, and now you are staring at the machine you were just playing. And you are certain that your machine is about to pay off, big time. But most of all, you just want to keep pl
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― Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
― Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
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You experience an urge (as I have been all week while writing this chapter), then you step back, both metaphorically and literally, and say to yourself, “I’m having an urge that makes me want to go gamble.” Then you pause. Then you again step away a few more paces and say to yourself, “Now I’m noticing that I’m having a thought that creates an urge and makes me want to go gamble.
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― Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
― Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
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