John Robbins
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But I'm...
Desperate not to do it.
Because it's hard.
It was very sudden, very intense.
And once I got to a gambling 12-step meeting, that helped a great deal.
Because I think what was so hard about that was how secret it was.
And just finding out there were other people who'd had similar problems was...
sort of a revelation.
However, it just didn't have its teeth into me.
Weirdly, even though it was an addiction, it had yet to become a habit.
So it was just something I suddenly found that helped me switch my brain off.
And because it was so catastrophic financially, it was a very black and white situation in that
I had no more money to lose because I lost all my money.
So it's like, I'm going to die.
I'm going to kill myself if this continues because I feel so awful.
Whereas I think alcohol has much more nuanced ways of telling you it's not a problem.
Everyone's doing it.
You didn't have a drink yesterday.
You only had five pints last night.
That's not too much.