currently in a house in Mexico City is a 60 year old woman, who knows that his daughter Marina has opened its safe to steal some of her jewels (the least used, so it does not bill.) Marina, the youngest daughter, you need to get out of his gambling debts amounting to 200 thousand pesos, and sees no other option but to "borrow" jewelry for his mother. These include the guarantee of when she married, having a value of 40 thousand pesos.
What would you say to your mother if you open the box and sees the theft? Marina asked in an interview with EL UNIVERSAL .
"Well ... someone else they are robbed. I would never say that I'm stuck in game fights says the 23 years.
Yesterday I took my mother's jewelry to pawn, and not the first time I do (he confesses later) but I'm sure it will recover the money, and when I can get them back (he says he started playing with his boyfriend on a trip to Las Vegas, and then we could not stop.)
Theirs are the gadgets. Marina
lives alone, works, and their fees and the support he is receiving in Gamblers Anonymous Mexico, hopes to soon leave his debts, including the "loan of the jewels of her mother and the help you has provided her boyfriend.
not long ago to be his partner (and broke) decided to settle an old debt which amounted to half a million dollars on credit cards. "Because in the game more credit cards, I have several and I know how to handle them, how to make transfers from one to another. I am an economist and labor from an early age, "says Marina.
In recent months, the credit card debt was repaid in full by the former boyfriend. The cards, clean. But a few days she would return to play, and even today his debts amounted to 400 thousand pesos. Mal
progressive
one night decided to dress walk a miniskirt and Reforma Avenue. "The cars would come to me. I was about to prostitute, in order to continue playing. A person approached me to ask 'What do you charge? " I approached the car window. I did not know how to ask and that prevented further negotiation with my body this time.
"Maybe that was the depth of pain that made me ask for help, to understand that playing a compulsive nature is a progressive disease that can never be cured but can be stopped," he says.
Marina came to the internet and found the Gamblers Anonymous website. Called and today is one of the women carefully attending to the group, consisting of approximately 50 people, many of them women.
Mauro Zapata, a former player and coordinator of the group that meets daily in Polanco says that Gamblers Anonymous is a group of men and women who share each other's experience, strength and hope that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from the game. Gamblers Anonymous
Mexico was founded in 2000 and currently has subsidiaries in Tijuana, Chihuahua, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Torreon, Ciudad Obregon, Saltillo and Mexico City. In Mexico City there are three groups: Polanco, Roma and Pedregal.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop playing. There is no fee or fees for membership, and remain through their own contributions. Gamblers Anonymous is not allied with any sect, belief, politics, organization or institution and will not engage in any controversy, neither endorses any cause. Its main purpose is to stop the game and help other compulsive gamblers do the same.
Before coming to Gamblers Anonymous, many compulsive gamblers perceived themselves as morally weak, and sometimes simply worthless. A compulsive gambler is emotionally comforted only when 'in action.
is not uncommon to hear a Gamblers Anonymous member say that "the only place where I felt I really belonged was sitting at a table. There I felt safe. Nobody forced me too. I knew I was destroying but at the same time had a sense of security, "explains Mauro Zapata.
Gamblers Anonymous members, we realized that what must be avoided is the first bet, even if the bet is so insignificant, like coffee, says Zapata , who started playing when I was 12, and remained in the game to 50.
"The thing to understand is that players Anonymous are sick people who can recover if we follow a simple program that has proven successful for thousands of men and women with gambling problems, "says the coordinator.
Recovery Gamblers Anonymous members have found that the best way to financial recovery is the work and pay our debts. Borrow and / or providing Gamblers Anonymous is detrimental to our recovery and should not be done.
The problem that will face the longest and most difficult, is a change of character within himself. The Most Gamblers Anonymous members in this regard are his greatest challenge, one that should engage immediately and face for the rest of their lives, he says.
"I was not willing to admit it was a player with a real problem. Persisted in futile attempts to prove he could play like other people, remained in the obsession that I could control the game until he was admitted compulsive gambler. That was the day I did not have a single penny to go home and I had to walk more than three hours a casino at the door of my apartment, not realizing that my little baby needed me because she was lactating.
I have three children, and as they slept and my husband I left the house to play, and returned in the morning before they wake up. Until one day, in desperation, I took a full liter of "
" I came to steal a lot of money to my husband, he owns a factory. I had to go through terrible experiences, madness, and almost death before that was ready to accept help. I faced a slow and gradual deterioration which led me to the point that in the end admitted defeat, "says Sofia.
Carolina, in turn, acknowledges having lost the ability to control game.
sometimes felt was regaining control, but eventually felt demoralized.
Although it was the last to leave the casino, the day after returning to play and she was struggling to recover the lost money. Once he
to win a million pesos. He retired from the casino. 300 000 reserved and the rest is returned to play, to lose everything. It remained
playing and drinking binge for months until he heard of Gamblers Anonymous and today is a woman who attends the group every day.
For Rogelio Villarreal, an addiction specialist, play for the compulsive gambler is defined as any bets or share in bet to himself or others, whether for money or not, no matter how insignificant, where the outcome is uncertain, dependent on chance or skill.
There are no short
The compulsive gambler needs to accept the fact that he or she is in the grip of a progressive disease and have the desire to recover. A decade's experience has shown that the Gamblers Anonymous program, always work for the person who has the desire to stop playing. But never to the person who does not face honestly and agree with this illness, addiction expert says.
Otilia, a woman of 45 years, says that she gets to stop playing by a progressive change of character within himself.
This can be achieved by having faith and following the basic principles of the Recovery Program of Gamblers Anonymous. There are no shortcuts to achieve this understanding and recovering from one of the most baffling and compulsive addictions, diligent effort is required, says the woman.
To Otilia, remained a desire to have all the good things of life without any effort on your part. In Gamblers Anonymous knew that this seems to be the common character pattern of compulsive gamblers.
"Unconsciously, he felt he could avoid responsibility for the maturity playing roulette or cards, and so struggled to escape responsibility, which finally became a subconscious obsession.
"His inner need to be 'someone important' and needed to feel powerful," reveals Otilia.
was willing to do almost anything to maintain the image he wanted others to see me. Of course, I had financial problems, but also marital, employment and legal. Mountain of problems. The intervals between the two parties were not conducive to constructive thought periods in me says. Otilia
recalls how different Christmas celebrations in his room to play on the Internet at cards and not even down to dinner with his family, on Christmas Eve because the casinos are closed.
In the dream world of compulsive gamblers, times are going to create images of the great and wonderful things they will do when they have a big profit. When compulsive gamblers succeed, they gamble to have bigger dreams, when they fail, they play with reckless desperation and often, they see themselves as philanthropic and charming people, concludes one of the coordinators of the group. source: eluniversal.com
