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Check these other pages:
Letters from Gamblers
A Crash Course In
Vigorish
The Best Way to Gamble
The Social Impact of
Gambling
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ARE YOU GEARED TO
GAMBLE?
Make no mistake about it, gambling is serious business.
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Gamblers Anonymous offers the following
questions to anyone who may have a gambling problem. These questions are provided to help
the individual decide if he or she is a compulsive gambler and wants to stop gambling.
TWENTY QUESTIONS
- Did you ever lose time from work or school due to gambling?
- Has gambling ever made your home life unhappy?
- Did gambling affect your reputation?
- Have you ever felt remorse after gambling?
- Did you ever gamble to get money with which to pay debts or otherwise
solve financial difficulties?
- Did gambling cause a decrease in your ambition or efficiency?
- After losing did you feel you must return as soon as possible and win
back your losses?
- After a win did you have a strong urge to return and win more?
- Did you often gamble until your last dollar was gone?
- Did you ever borrow to finance your gambling?
- Have you ever sold anything to finance gambling?
- Were you reluctant to use "gambling money" for normal
expenditures?
- Did gambling make you careless of the welfare of yourself or your
family?
- Did you ever gamble longer than you had planned?
- Have you ever gambled to escape worry or trouble?
- Have you ever committed, or considered committing, an illegal act to
finance gambling?
- Did gambling cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
- Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create within you an
urge to gamble?
- Did you ever have an urge to celebrate any good fortune by
a few hours of gambling?
- Have you ever considered self destruction or suicide as a result of
your gambling?
Most compulsive gamblers will answer yes to at least seven of these questions.
Email: isomain@gamblersanonymous.org
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Our thanks
to the people at GA for allowing us to print the above questions. We'd like to add one
more thing: If you answered "no" to every one of the 20 questions you most likely have as
bad a problem as someone answering "yes" to at least 7 of the questions. Answering
"no" to
every question means you're kidding yourself. We've all had a problem with at least a
couple of the above conditions.
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