hi all
just wanted to post on here my story and a bit about me.
ive been gambling on and off for the best part of ten years and was in well over my head. my gambling had got of control and i was about to lose everything my family had lent me money, i had borrowed money from my girlfreind, borrowed money from campanys that i just couldnt afford to pay back, plus i had a small mountian of credit card debt to go along with it all, this was all from my gambling addiction. the debt was getting worse and pretty much all my hard earned cash was going on gambling and could do nothing about it. i was depressed and had thought about hurting myself because i had no where else to turn.
but
when i thought i had nothing and no one wanted to help me one of my family asked me to be honest and everything came out i was shocked to hear my self confessing everything that i had done but it helped. she told me if i promised never to gamble again she would get the help i needed, so from that point on i made a commitment to give it up and face everything that i hade done. i placed gambling block software on my phone and laptop and self excluded from betting shops, i also got counciling form break even which was amazing and i would recomend to everybody the guy was named neil i could not of done what i have done without his help.
so now i am 5 months on nearly 6 and things are going great i dont want to gamble and actually hate the thought of it, my debts are going down slowly and im learning the value of money and living on a tight budget things are hard at times but its all worth it i am aiming to be debt free in 10 months.
this is my story so far all ill say is that you can all do it
thanks for reading
Wow well done you should be very very proud of yourself. I have now put a block on my phone as well as computer and registered with gamstop. Its been 10 days and the urges are strong especially at night like this but reading stories like yours help ne so thanks for sharing and keep it up. I hope to be like you in 5 months time
thats great to hear keep going it gets easier every day the hard part is living with everything that you have done to be able to gameble. the debts and th people you hurt you dont even realise that it is happening until you stop. i would recomend break even they are great and really helped me through the worst part.
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