how to stop my mom’s gambling addiction?
Posted by adminOct 31
My family lives a very stressful, chaotic life. my mom is a landlord or landlady and basically stays at home when no one has any complaints about the apartments. my dad has a bicycle shop business and it caught fire and burnt down a few months ago so now he just fixes things at the apartments if something happens. i have a 4.0, piano lessons, voice lessons, and i’ve finally realized that i have ednos or eating disorder not otherwise specified (which is basically anorexia, bulimia, and binge disorder all mixed into one). i have moderate depression and no one knows about my eating disorder. and my sister seems to be a little depressed as well (my parents tell us that they’ll only love us if we’re good and behave well)
my life is so chaotic right now, i just can’t deal with anymore! and i feel like nothing is going right and everythings just one big mess and to top things off, my mom has been losing money gambling and she tells us that she wins all the time and in denial of her addictio
She’s always asking to borrow money. Is angry and irritable when she loses. Tells us that shes somewhere else when shes really at the casino. She’s cold and distant. Shes always bragging about winning and being so lucky and gets mad when i confront her about her gambling. She has absolutely no hobbies but going to the casino, watching TV, and playing internet games. Gets really mad when I ask her where she is. She keeps telling me she has control and when she loses a certain amount of money she leaves the casino but i honestly really doubt that. it tearing our family apart even though we really weren’t close to begin with
She’s always asking to borrow money. Is angry and irritable when she loses. Tells us that shes somewhere else when shes really at the casino. She’s cold and distant. Shes always bragging about winning and being so lucky and gets mad when i confront her about her gambling. She has absolutely no hobbies but going to the casino, watching TV, and playing internet games. Gets really mad when I ask her where she is. She keeps telling me she has control and when she loses a certain amount of money she leaves the casino but i honestly really doubt that. it tearing our family apart even though we really weren’t close to begin with
2 comments
Comment by wldchldwoman on 10/31/2010 at 7:05 pm
THE SAD PART IS THERE IS GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS LIKE THE ALCOHOL BUT UNLESS SHE WANTS TO GET BETTER AND SEEK HELP SHE WON’T SO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IS SEEK HELP FOR YOU AND YOUR SIBLING AND DEALING WITH HOME LIFE. JUST LIKE YOU ARE HERE GET ON THE COMPUTER TYPE YOUR QUESTION ON HELP FOR YOU IN YOUR AREA. PLS. YOU DESERVE IT. IT MAKES ME SAD TO HEAR THESE STORIES OF WHAT PARENTS ARE DOING TO THERE KIDS. GOD BLESS AND PRAYERS!!!!
Comment by Suzanne R on 10/31/2010 at 7:42 pm
Your family is way too dysfunctional for a whole team of psychiatrists, I bet. Can you and your sister go stay with a relative? You can never stop someone else’s addictive behavior. The’re the only one who can decide that have a problem and then they can choose to go to Gamblers’ Anonymous. Sounds like Chaos Central and it’s no wonder you have problems. You’re the child and you shouldn’t have to fix the mother. She’s the Mom and you’re the child. I can’t think of any other answers but “Get out of there”.