Sean had
already known about Gamblers Anonymous but was afraid to
go and was scared people would find out. He finally
decided to call Gamblers Anonymous and check it out.
Sean found out that Gamblers
Anonymous has helped thousands of individuals beat their
compulsive gambling addiction. He was smart individual.
He realized the expectations that are placed on Gamblers
Anonymous are excessive due to the volume of gamblers
seeking help with a very unique program. He attended
his first meeting and realized he was not alone and help
was available if he wanted it.
Gamblers Anonymous has a twelve
step program geared towards helping individuals with
their gambling addiction.
The twelve steps are as
follows:
-
We
admitted we were powerless over gambling - that our
lives had become unmanageable.
-
Came to
believe that a Power greater than ourselves could
restore us to a normal way of thinking and living.
-
Made a
decision to turn our will and our lives over to the
care of this Power of our own understanding.
-
Made a
searching and fearless moral and financial inventory
of ourselves.
-
Admitted
to ourselves and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
-
Were
entirely ready to have these defects of character
removed.
-
Humbly
asked God (of our understanding) to remove our
shortcomings.
-
Made a
list of all persons we had harmed and became willing
to make amends to them all.
-
Make
direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
-
Continued to take personal inventory and when we
were wrong, promptly admitted it.
-
Sought
through prayer and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with God as we understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of His will for us and
the power to carry that out.
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Having
made an effort to practice these principles in all
our affairs, we tried to carry this message to other
compulsive gamblers.
Understanding the Gamblers Anonymous program allowed
Sean to decide if this was the right program for him.
He was able to relate to all the people at the meeting
but felt his situation was different. He saw the pros
and cons of this program.
For three
months he attended Gamblers Anonymous, his life began to
get better until he slipped up and placed a few bets.
He was so ashamed that he gambled he didn’t know what to
do. He missed the next meeting but decided to go again
the following week. He told the group what had happened
and they unfortunately change his date that he placed
his last bet. This totally discouraged him and reduced
his self esteem to the lowest in his life. He still
continued to go but his heart was no longer into
Gamblers Anonymous. He felt degraded. His sponsor
there tried to help him work through it. The next
meeting he attended a person walked into the room that
he recognized. He began to panic and asked to talk to
the chair person. The chair person tried to calm him
down, by telling him that everything that happens in
this room stays in this room. The person you know is
here to get help too.
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