Monkee100 wrote:
I used to gamble in the stock market, I got high on the risk of short term holds and obsessed with watching my stock's movement all day. It was a temporary special interest. I would track details in trends and mathematically forecast a stock's movement. It got so bad I quit my job to be a "day trader". Needless to say that didn't work out. As I lost more and more money I also lost the special interest, thankfully. Let me ask you this, do you think about gambling in ways that are more complex than a typical gambler (say, coming up with strategies, obsessing over how odds are calculated)? Maybe its your special interest too, and not a typical "gambling addiction".
There is something about the way the fruit machines light up that seems to draw me in. I think whenever I go out somewhere, like a bar or a club, because I have a difficult time mixing and communicating with other people, I resort to the machines in order to avoid awkward confrontations.
I could just avoid bars and clubs altogether, but then I would just remain indoors all day.
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