Gambling Addiction Treatment

Mitch: Someone who is addicted to gambling will do anything to get their substance of choice whether be it gambling, um, in this case, you lie, you'll steal, you'll defraud banks, you'll do anything you can to get money just so you can gamble. I found for myself, I realized that I was a gambling addict when I was escaping life. I would spend mindless hours at a slot machine just to escape what I'm going through on a day-to-day basis just so I didn't have to feel anything much like using drugs. Long story short, I amassed about a six figure debt before I came into treatment. That was from both gambling and substance abuse and just not taking care of yourself. I guess the last night I was out was the last night I used drugs and the last night I gambled. I woke up in my, um, office parking lot, on a Tuesday morning at about 4:30am, and I was, I had food all over me, casino receipts, there were drugs in my car, and people were going to start coming to work soon and I basically didn't even realize how I got there at the time and I realized enough was enough and I just had that one moment of clarity where instead of saying I had to do something about it, I actually did. And, although at the time, once I sobered up a little bit, I realized oh my god I am entering treatment... well, It saved my life so I'm glad I'm here. The program at the Last Door teaches you that there is a community of recovery out there. The integrating into society... We're not isolated in a forest somewhere. We're encouraged to go to NA meetings, I was encouraged to go to GA meetings, and in turn we meet people who are outside of treatment who have been clean for numerous years and in turn just to give you additional insight and support and makes you realize you're not alone in this world. Your problems are not unique to yourself. And then it often makes it a lot easier to identify with and deal with for that matter. I found that just by simply working a really, just a simply program of recovery in my life things are starting to go into place here. I'm able to pay down debt. Just been back to work a week or two already, and I already feel like I'll have plenty of money to do what I need to do on a day-to-day basis to pay down debt and save for my future. I mean, life goes on. I used gambling to escape life. I mean, one time or another I was going for the rush of it, but at the end of the day I was escaping life. It was a compulsive act for me, much like my drug use. And I don't need to escape the reality of my life today. The Last Door has enabled me to work on these things and identify these kinds of issues. Take responsibility in my life where I wasn't willing to take responsibility, forgive things I wasn't willing to forgive, and essentially heal myself.

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