I hit a floor so low I didn't think there was a basement.
I’m currently sitting in the emotional and financial wreckage, and instead of relapsing, I’m coding. I’m building an app designed for the "In-Between"—those 15 minutes where the urge hits and the world feels like it's ending.
It’s not a habit tracker. It’s a survival kit for sitting with the pain.
I need to know: When the urge to check the odds or the market hits your brain like a freight train, what is the one physical or mental action that actually stops you? I’m coding the best ones into an emergency protocol feature.
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I think for me what stops me… IS TIME
When the emotional high of the thought of the gamble or the stock market opens… My mind is riding high on that thought,, and what I need is a distraction like 10 or 15 minutes to pull my mind away from that and then that feeling would go away. As you know when that gamble enters our mine we think it’s full proof and that’s all we can think about… School we need something to pull us away from that to get back to planet Earth.
My friend is convinced we gamble because we don’t respect money… He suggest if we flush a few hundred dollars down the toilet that would put things in perspective and we wouldn’t gamble. I can’t endorse that I will say.
Honestly it isn’t an urge. I gambled because I wanted to. Now I realize how much I lost in past and it’s stupid . The urge is just you wanting to gamble. You will find a reason. Now reverse your mind an find reasons why you shouldn’t gamble! It’s plenty that will be easy. Just think in reverse. If I gamble this money im going to lose out on A. b. C
Reverse the if I win to im going to lose out on this . It’s not worth it
How about this… Create something when we have the urge to go gamble… We take that money and lock it away, but we can’t touch it for one year… So then one year from now we can have all kinds of money that we pretty much know we would’ve lost gambling Key point is we can’t get it to use for gambling. It must be safeguarded / locked up for 1 year
Very simple for me… knowing if I fall to the other, I lose my wife and our kids. I let her monitor me through a website called deuce recovery.. it’s been the only thing that ever allowed me to fight off the urge. After fighting with my addiction for 16 years, i can now honestly say i haven’t been this happy since I was kid.
Doesn’t mean everyday is easy. These past few weekends with nfl playoffs have been tough for sure… but I’m finally living an honest life with integrity and I know my two little ones will be proud.
An app that can brick my phone so I can’t gamble
The thought of losing my family. That scares me enough to stay focused and stay away from it.