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13 - Don’t ‘Switch On’ the Auto-pilot: Future Planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE
Affiliation:
National Problem Gambling Clinic, London
Venetia Leonidaki
Affiliation:
National Problem Gambling Clinic, London
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Summary

At this stage, you will have done quite a lot of work and may have already made plenty of changes. Perhaps things are more manageable and perhaps you have achieved a solid period of not gambling. It would be easy to think that the job is done, but that would be a mistake. Research into how recovery progresses shows that good starts are often undone by complacency and bad luck. Complacency is falling back into bad habits, even if these are not directly gambling related. Bad luck is about events that happen that we were not expecting. The problem with bad luck is it happens to everyone, all the time. Bad luck is just another name for life.

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Breaking Free
How To Stop Gambling
, pp. 123 - 129
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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