Today is my 60th day gamble free. I’m currently sat around a pool in Majorca enjoying my holiday, thinking about how this time last year I lost 5k gambling whilst sat around the pool.
I feel I am a different person today a year on, I no longer reach for my phone as soon as I wake up to check the football fixtures and odds. It was a habit for me that was simply the norm. Something that was programmed into my head that I couldn’t erase for the last 9 years.
Today I keep fighting and hopefully I can reach my goal of being gamble free and debt free in 3 years time.
keep fighting
Very well done on day 60 keep positive and dedicated I to was the same I truly thought I was the master trader know it all but the losses kept stacking up
Even with huge losses I kept believing that I could overcome the system odds it was so tiring and leads to total burnout
Lets help each other prosper in our real lives
Best MH
Well done King each day is a new challege am on day 377 the fight has only just started keep pushing forward and life will improve👍
Hi
The recovery program is not a battle you fight with in your self.
The recovery program helps you learn to abstain from unhealthy habits.
In time you get to understand your emotional triggers.
My emotional triggers were pains I could not heal.
My emotional triggers were my fears I could not face or reduce.
My emotional triggers were frsutrations due to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situatioins.
My emotional triggers were boredom in time I wrote down my needs my wants and in time new found goals.
My emotional triggers were due to my feelings of loneliness due to my fears of havin emotional intimacy with other people.
The like minded people in the recovery program would give therapies that help me understand more about my self.
The therapies helped reduce my fears and my trust grew in the meetings.
The addictions and obsessions were just a form of escape for me in my fears.
On walking in to the recovery program I even thought that I loved gambling.
Silly me I did not love gambling it was fear based andrenaline tha gave me that kind of high.
The bigger the risk the bigger the high.
By going to meeting I learned to abstain from gambling.
By going to meeting I learned to hand over my finances.
By going to meeting I learned to heal my hurt inner child.
By going to meeting I learned to live my life with out any fears what so ever.
Healing peace and love
Dave l
AKA Dave of Beckenham
@gadaveuk
Everyone’s battles is a personal one. People deal with it in their own way. Their own journey.
Your first point in incorrect in regards to saying you are “Not battling it within yourself”
Your journey is your personal one. I’m on my own journey and dealing with it in my own personal way
Well done I’m 59 days gamble free today it is getting easier x
Well done King, you are doing really well. I did exactly the same when I was on holiday last year and I’m glad you are relaxing and enjoying yourself rather than wasting time checking for the next football bet to come in.
Gambling is such a waste and I think everyone on here knows the damage it does. Like you say we are all on our personal journeys and I really hope we can all succeed and lead happy lives going forward.
Enjoy your holiday and celebrate another day GF.
G
Well done King, you are doing really well. I did exactly the same when I was on holiday last year and I’m glad you are relaxing and enjoying yourself rather than wasting time checking for the next football bet to come in.
Gambling is such a waste and I think everyone on here knows the damage it does. Like you say we are all on our personal journeys and I really hope we can all succeed and lead happy lives going forward.
Enjoy your holiday and celebrate another day GF.
G
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