John Robbins
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know, there's...
Alcoholism is a disease that tells you you don't have it a lot.
So booze was more like in every part of my life and my job and my social circle and my thinking.
So that made it much harder to realize I had a problem, I think.
Three and a half years.
When I first went to a gambling meeting, I was a real outlier.
So I was the youngest person there by 20 years.
Absolutely.
I was the only person there who had problems with like fruit machines and scratch cards.
They were quite, it was quite, it just had happened to be an old school.
There was all horses.
I don't know.
I don't know whether that meeting was unusual or whether it was just that they thought, here's a young kid who we need to sort of nip this in the bud.
But I didn't do the steps.
I found the meetings enough.
And it worked.