Is it normal to feel moody and uptight...

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(@sinceninetyeight)
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First day where I haven't deposited in a LONG time and I notice I am more irritable, mood is low and being off work for a few more days, I don't have much in way of distractions. Is it normal to feel like this way? I also feel like the next 4 days will be very tough given all the sport on offer! 

 
Posted : 14th April 2022 9:02 pm
gadaveuk
(@gadaveuk)
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Hi

I walked in to the recovery program an emotionally vulnerable person, not able to heal from the pains of my life.

The pains caused up on me and of my life caused me to live in fears that I did not understand and I could not face those fears or reduce those fears.

For me recovery was more than just abstaining from Gambling, just abstaining I was white knuckling my recovery.

A healthy recovery was about being focused on my healthy needs my healthy wants my healthy goals and writing them down daily.

To become more focused on healthy things in my life.

For me walking in to the recovery program was an eye opener.

For me just abstaining from Gambling I was stopping myself from causing more pains to myself.

For me the recovery program and people in it were going to help me help myself in so many ways

Being in the recovery program I would understand that being irritable was not healthy for me.

Being in the recovery program I would be more tolerant and more patient and tolerant with myself and others. 

I would start to understand that the adrenaline highs of gambling was not happiness and that I did not love gambling, I was so messed up I could not understand my feelings and emotions were. 

My thinking of being distracted or having obsessions was another way of avoiding facing my feelings and emotions.

Once we abstain from unhealthy habits we will learn to face and deal with our fears and our emotional triggers in healthy ways.

If you get committed to your recovery you will no longer live  in fear and self doubt.

Once we exchange unhealthy habits in to healthy habits our lives are less fearful and more self sufficient.

In facing and admitting that you are emotionally vulnerable you can change that.

In time you will become a person you are proud of.

Thank you for sharing

Love and peace to every one

Dave L

AKA Dave of Beckenham UK

 
Posted : 15th April 2022 6:00 am
(@steve850)
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Hi, yes I think it is,compulsive gambling has made your brain addicted,looking for the next feed and cycle of gambling when you suddenly stop irritability and low mood kicks in,if your ready to stop then put strict measures in place ,hand over bank cards credit cards,finances,self exclude online and in shop,keep yourself busy do anything other than to start the process which is compulsive gambling, win lose chase,back to zero being a compulsive gambler you can never win! I wish you well.

 
Posted : 15th April 2022 8:10 am
Joydivider
(@joydivider)
Posts: 2156
 

Our moods ebb and flow so it's normal to experience all sorts of mood changes.

It's a difficult question to answer because you have to face yourself and ask whether you are generally depressed and what irks you about life.

Look SNE we all get days when the bills come in and I'm not particularly happy about electricity and the cost of living.

However gambling is not the answer to all of that or anything else really.....on those odds all the risk is with you and you need to *** how many people could play the lottery for example for countless lifetimes and win nothing.....you need to get a *** of this scam and fight it...I'm just trying to get through to you that it's a mugs game and look where it got us

A difference now is that I've saved a bit and I can borrow what I would have gambled for in the past....It's called a controlled and much more organised life!

Yes I'm careful with my borrowing and could pay it back instantly from my savings but do you see how a person can build a better life when gamble free 

You really do need to talk through your moods with a doctor or a therapist. They will be the cravings for a fix that was destroying you. Its a vice and drug addiction that was destroying you 

You have to abstain block and do the cold turkey to see that they are pushers and you were hooked 

Best wishes for a gamble free life

 
Posted : 16th April 2022 2:03 am

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