Gambling Addiction

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an option to eat at the restaurants or see the shows. Seeing all of the gambling that went on while walking through casinos did not faze me at all. Never would I have thought that on my twenty-first birthday, one of the most dreaded and regretful things to ever happen in my life would happen in one of those casinos. My coworkers took me to a casino on my twenty first birthday. They had me sit at a blackjack table and taught me how to play. I won a little bit of money and then ended up losing it very quickly by getting greedy and placing large bets. After losing I thought to myself “I can just go to the ATM and get out some more cash, win all of my money back since I won so much before losing it, and then go home and end the night either even or ahead”. Things did not happen that way though, I went to the ATM over and over trying to win my money back. I eventually got to the point where my account balance was at zero dollars and I still had about a week and a half until ...

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I chose to end my career in the military just to move out of Las Vegas. This was the only way I could get away from it all. I ended up telling my wife everything after we arrived back home in Ohio and were settled in. The feeling she had was of complete shock. She questioned her trust in me after that, even though I was not gambling anymore. The lesson that I learned from this whole experience is that the one day that I learned to gamble could have made my life a miserable mess, if I had not have done something to stop it.
There are many other forms of gambling other than just casinos. State lottery games, horse racing, internet poker, etc. are ways to lose money and gain an ...

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