Quit Compulsive Gambling: The Action Plan for Gamblers and Their Families

by Gordon Moody

This is an overview of all aspects of gambling indicating how to recognize the behaviour patterns of the compulsive gambler, what can happen when the gambler finally runs out of money, how gambling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0722516010
• ISBN13: 9780722516010
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Thorsons Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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A Review of Gordon Moody's book "Quit Compulsive Gambling"

Money is probably the most important unit in everyone's existence. That is why losing money is not so pleasant experience at all. Gambling is one of those vices which once you have started, it is hard to give up. Furthermore, it is not only the gambler who suffers, but also the people surrounding him. It is apparent that people start gambling in order to win money. But why are they not able to stop? What are the consequences that happen inside their souls during the process of addiction? Such questions cannot be answered on the spur of the moment. That is why, my strong interest towards gambling urged me to do a research on the subject thus penetrating into punters' way of thinking. Fortunately, I found a book entitled "Quit Compulsive Gambling" written by Gordon Moody, who turned out to be steeped in the atmosphere of gambling and its impact ( actually, he is the founder of the national organization for compulsive gamblers called Gamblers Anonymous, which will be presented later in my review).In the book, the author uncovers the disorders that permeate into those who gamble excessively and, at the same time, discloses the impact this terrible "shortcoming" has on their lives and those of their families. Moody also emphasizes the unpleasant fact that nowadays such disorders have made their ways to the youngest and most vulnerable members of our society, whereas in the past it largely existed in mature men. Most of all, it is a book made to provide light in the end of the tunnel for those afflicted by obsessive gambling and to awake those who wish to help them. Throughout the whole book, the author resorts to his personal experience. The beginning shows the audience how to recognize whether there is a gambler in your house. Moody says that almost always punters withdraw into themselves. They change their personality and develop a secret life- "many wives suspect that there is another woman" (16). From there on, problems arise. Thus gamblers' environmental estrangement becomes evident. It is because he has chosen new goals and to achieve them he has to follow new paths. Doing this "he has `put on', like a coat, a different `person" (25). The author's manner of expression is faultless. The gambler is gnawed by his own deeds. He is not able to admit his guilt in front of his relatives. He is obsessed by the idea to win back his money. That is why he lies them. In fact, he steals from himself. Actually, the compulsive gambler becomes compulsive liar and compulsive robber. However, every initiative has its end. Mr Moody explains to the reader that pathological gamblers eventually look for help when they reach the bottom: " They suffer an acute crisis- personal rather than financial- which shocks them out of their obsession and forces them to face the truth about themselves" (37). The author again resorts to his own experience. He remembers a man who was on the threshold of committing suicide because of gambling. The person concerned had lost his