20 Questions

Most Compulsive Gamblers will answer YES to 7 or more of these questions.

  1. Do you lose time from work due to gambling ?
  2. Is gambling making your home life unhappy ?
  3. Is gambling affecting your reputation ?
  4. Have you ever felt remorse after gambling ?
  5. Do you ever gamble to get money with which to pay debts or otherwise solve financial difficulties ?
  6. Does gambling cause a decrease in your ambition or efficiency ?
  7. After losing, do you feel you must return as soon as possible and win back your loses ?
  8. After a win do you have a strong urge to return and win more ?
  9. Do you often gamble until your last pound is gone ?
  10. Do you ever borrow to finance your gambling ?
  11. Have you ever sold anything to finance gambling ?
  12. Are you reluctant to use gambling money for normal expenditure ?
  13. Does gambling make you careless of the welfare of you family ?
  14. Do you gamble longer than you planned ?
  15. Do you ever gamble to escape worry or trouble ?
  16. Have you ever committed, or considered committing an illegal act to finance gambling ?
  17. Does gambling cause you difficulty in sleeping ?
  18. Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create an urge within you to gamble ?
  19. Do you have an urge to celebrate any good fortune with a few hours gambling ?
  20. Have you ever considered self - destruction as a result of your gambling ?

Fact

Gamblers Anonymous and Gam-Anon are both voluntary organisations.

Voluntary self financing is part of the recovery programme to cover the cost of group meetings, fellowship literature and the help lines.

GA and Gam-Anon refuse outside contributions.