I made an account on this around 3 months ago. And I did find it helped me count down the days. But I would constantly cheat myself and not count it as gambling if I won and would tell myself i am just taking back what's mine. Well it's all turned awful again I had a -800 overdraft which wasn't from gambling mostly just bad spending and looking at it as free money. Well I opened an account on a new online casino and over the course of 2 weeks gambling every day won every time on roulette everytime I got greedy and cancelled the withdrawals and won even more baring in mind the biggest spin I would do would be about 25 I ended up over 1300 profit. Now on Friday after my last withdrawal came through I paid off my bills and still had 180 in my account. Something told me ring up the bank cancel the overdraft. But obviously I didn't I deposited the 80 won another 200 but didn't stop kept playing at my computer all day at work and lost 1100 in the space of 4 hours. At one point I was down 600 won it all back in 2 spins and had 657 I will never forget it. I told myself your up a days work for siting here all day cash out and stop. No I didn't I kept going and going lost 1100. Then after leaving work went to the shopping centre with my girlfriend I couldn't stop thinking about going to the casino causing arguments with her and pestering her to hurry up so we could go there. Eventually we did I went up there and won 250 in 5 minutes. She couldn't belive it and was telling me to stop. Not knowing how much I had pumped into gambling that day. Well I kept playing and lost everything else I had I am now 1600 overdrawn and have no clue how I'm going to pay that as I only work part time. Any tips for handling that would be appreciated. So I am just on this site as know one understands me and have know one I can turn to with this. I gambled and lost 155 earlier and that's the last for a long time. So currently on day 0.
Hi George
I understand. Only too well. I am on day 6 and the only thing stopping me gamble at the moment is the fact I don't have the opportunity. There are no casinos where I live but online slots were my thing. I kept self-excluding myself from sites only to join new ones. Every time I won anything I would plough it back. On the rare occasions I decided to withdraw the funds never left the pending withdrawal as I would go back in - to win more. The most I lost in one day was 4,000 - money that was meant to pay off a loan (borrowed from elsewhere). Even if I wasn't going to pay off the loan with the 4,000 I could have made so much better use of it. But that is the past. I am typing on my PC which has an excellent block on it and have given my iPad (the offending item) to my grandson. This is on loan to him but I won't have the heart to take it back nor do I want to at this stage.
So, the opportunity has been taken away and finances under someone elses control so I couldn't gamble anyway.
Could you not perhaps get someone to put a block on your computer and exclude yourself from the casino. At least this will take the opportunity to gamble away from you.
As for how to handle the finances, maybe someone else can post some advice on that for you as I am probably the worse person to advise you.
Stay strong though and I hope you get through this.
Elfie
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