How may of you think you have a gambling disease?

Sam Odom · 12-01-09, 09:38 PM

gambling is just the outlet or manifestation of a more deeply rooted problem

SamsNCharge99 · 12-01-09, 09:38 PM

i do

anthonydiamondLC · 12-01-09, 09:42 PM

Originally posted by Sam Odom

gambling is just the outlet or manifestation of a more deeply rooted problem

what is my more rooted problem Doctor?

Sam Odom · 12-01-09, 09:43 PM

Seek and you shall find , grasshopper

LLXC · 12-01-09, 09:43 PM

anthonydiamondLC · 12-01-09, 09:45 PM

guys i am running to the casino now to satisfy my urge and play some poker who wants to meet me at the taj?

UntilTheNDofTimE · 12-01-09, 09:45 PM

If only we didnt love sports we wudnt gamble

anthonydiamondLC · 12-01-09, 09:49 PM

My uncle turned me onto sports gambling if only he just had a passion for like math or science maybe i wouldnt be so ****ed up

BurtRapp · 12-01-09, 09:49 PM

I KNOW I have a disease. I am a compulsive gambler. There is no doubt about it. The biggest degenerate on the board I can lock that up !!!!!!!!!!!

framboise · 12-01-09, 09:52 PM

Home - Gamblers Anonymous

http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/

jjgold · 12-01-09, 09:54 PM

Two ways to kick it

GA
Medication

UntilTheNDofTimE · 12-01-09, 09:54 PM

Originally posted by anthonydiamondLC

My uncle turned me onto sports gambling if only he just had a passion for like math or science maybe i wouldnt be so ****ed up

So true my dad wud put 5 bucks on a 3-10 team parlay every week at work. He showed me how to bet on sports! Fack!

anthonydiamondLC · 12-01-09, 09:54 PM

if only cameras would follow me around i would be must see tv, however it would have to be shown on hbo.

anthonydiamondLC · 12-01-09, 09:55 PM

JJ there is no medication for this. Its a sick disease.

Brock Landers · 12-01-09, 10:04 PM

there is a only one way, God and giving up one's self. Gamblers are the most selfish people there are, when we become self-less, you will then be able to not gamble.

Sam Odom · 12-01-09, 10:06 PM

Cannot 'blame' anyone else for your losing , thats right , losing is your problem not gambling.

Just face the facts and change or stop

BurtRapp · 12-01-09, 10:07 PM

In Gamblers Anonymous I answer 20 for 20 YES to the Twenty Questions section.
I went to my first meeting in 1998. Longest I put together was 9 months without making a bet. I have been going off and on to meetings for 10 years. I have been on many medications including Luvox. It is impossible to stop!!!

Bread · 12-01-09, 10:08 PM

Originally posted by Brock Landers

there is a only one way, God and giving up one's self. Gamblers are the most selfish people there are, when we become self-less, you will then be able to not gamble.

Finding God is the ultimate gamble, Brock.

Do you spend your entire life as a boring lump, barring yourself from all things in life that are any fun (sex, drugs, rock & roll) to sit in a church and listen to some fraud feed you a pile of horseshit, just to find out that when you close your eyes for the final time, it's just as it was before you were born?

That's one helluva gamble. I'll stick to losing my money on the field. Fukk that noise.

Brock Landers · 12-01-09, 10:09 PM

Bread, God can be anything you want him to be. Not someone else's idea, but your own. just a "power greater than you"

THE PROFIT · 12-02-09, 12:40 AM

Originally posted by Brock Landers

Bread, God can be anything you want him to be. Not someone else's idea, but your own. just a "power greater than you"

Well then why can't gambling be your god? Worship at 1:00, 4:00, 8:00 on Sunday and one helluva prayer meeting on Monday Night!!!!

xxdjstriderxx · 12-02-09, 12:43 AM

lyon804 · 12-02-09, 12:47 AM

After reading this thread it has become apparent to me that gambling is not the problem here. It's way more fukked up than that for some of you.

podunk · 12-02-09, 12:49 AM

****ing depression

PASS IT ON · 12-02-09, 12:54 AM

Originally posted by xxdjstriderxx

so true

Preston09 · 12-02-09, 12:56 AM

Watch Two for the Money...

minet123 · 12-02-09, 01:06 AM

we admit we where powerless....BLAH BLAH BLAH
Being selfish and stupid is not a disease
No matter what it is booze,drugs,hookers or sports you can learn from your mistakes
Why don't they tell people at over eater anonymous to stop eating
no they teach them how to eat yet we are expected to stop
WE LACK DISCIPLINE

eidolon · 12-02-09, 01:12 AM

if you stopped gambling, you would just pick up drinking, if stopped drinking and gambling, you would just pick up drugs; if you stopped drinking, gambling, and doing drugs, you would start stealing.

The disease isn't gambling, the disease is the thrill that needs to be found within something.

rm18 · 12-02-09, 01:13 AM

even people who win can be problem gamblers, it can cut down on profits too chasing or betting for action

lakerboy · 12-02-09, 01:22 AM

Originally posted by eidolon

if you stopped gambling, you would just pick up drinking, if stopped drinking and gambling, you would just pick up drugs; if you stopped drinking, gambling, and doing drugs, you would start stealing.

The disease isn't gambling, the disease is the thrill that needs to be found within something.

punterfriend · 12-02-09, 01:24 AM

Guys, I don't see the problem, at least for me, It is a hobby, something to do after a work day, I also have fantasy's or dreams of waking about 10:00 AM every day and gambling for a living, But I realize that may never happen, still I dream. You take away a mans dreams that is when he gets really depressed, that is why we manage our money so we can live to fight (gamble) another day. You must keep things in the right order, God , Family, Work, home. All us deep down know this, and Bread you are probally young, I used to have some of the same feelings you do about God and Church and Religion and Priests and Pastors, Rabbis. When you get older you see things better. Also your body will begin to tell you that sex drugs and rock-and-roll well just isn't what they used to be, and hang overs hurt alot more than they use to. And that is no Shite. As far as religion I have found one of the most wonderful person I will ever know, He is my priest. A smart, educated, funny man who hasn't a hippocritical bone in his body and never have I seen him judge anyone. My point is their are good people in religion
they are not at all as Bread percieves them. I'm not knocking Bread I understand where he is coming from, I feel he will change his point of view as he gets older.

After saying that,you guys have a GOOD ****ING DAY.

Once a priest asked General Patton if he read his Bible. The Generals reply was yes, every G.D. day.

GODSPEED, AND MAKE SOME DOOOOOOOOUGH!

1st and Ten · 12-02-09, 01:30 AM

Originally posted by anthonydiamondLC

what is my more rooted problem Doctor?

Loneliness

1st and Ten · 12-02-09, 01:34 AM

Originally posted by Brock Landers

there is a only one way, God and giving up one's self. Gamblers are the most selfish people there are, when we become self-less, you will then be able to not gamble.

Sounds like someone is learning...ALL addictions are selfish. I challenge any of you to prove me otherwise

GELATINOUS CUBE · 12-02-09, 01:39 AM

I have all the signs except for one. the $$$ part!

Yeah you can be a 'pro' But you're handicapping at 10 am when you wake up, and you don't get off work until the last 2nd half Lakers bet.

I just get the feeling a lot of you guys don't handicap the games thouroughly, in which case, you're gonna got pounded, because the linesmakers juke you into winning at 45% or 40%.

minet123 · 12-02-09, 01:45 AM

But being selfish is not a disease.I think everyone should do a 4th,5th and 6th step and by the time you have that awakening you will stay or move on. Justifying sleazy behavior because your a selfish prick is just as wrong.Its about honesty,you can find a power greater than your self anywhere.Here for example when your making picks but hiding behind the "disease" BS to justify what you have done in life is wrong