Can't Stop

Hi seany... Thanks for your message of support today. I don't really feel that i am in a position to offer advise at this early stage in my recovery but as someone who had an online gambling a few years back my way of overcoming it was through self exclusion. That is going to my first step - going into the bookies and self excluding. I was thinking that i was going to be embarrassed but after just thinking about stuff it cant be any more embarrassin that the feeling i get when i walk into the bookies and ask the staff to put 300 into the machine so i can bet 100 a time on cartoon dogs - you can do it mate. Keep in touch!

ive just lost another amount and i feel sick! i don't know what to do anymore or how this is going to end! just wish there was a click of the fingers to make it all stop!

Hi Seany26,

Welcome to the forum, and well done for posting here.

It’s a good thing that you decided to come to the forum for help and support to overcome your gambling addiction after 10years of indulging. As you may soon realise, you’ll get a lot of help and support from both advisers and forum users. You’ll also learn from experiences from those who have been in similar shoes like yours, and apply these strategies and boundaries they used to help them overcome their addiction problem.

We can also offer you 12 sessions of free counselling, and nearest to where you live if you think that would help you overcome your gambling addiction.

Perhaps it would be advisable to contact our free phone line on 0808 8020 133 and speak to one of our specially trained advisers. We’re open everyday from 8.00am to 12.00midnight.

My best wishes to you in your efforts to overcome your addiction.

Thanks again for posting here, and please keep posting as often as you can.

Kind regards,

Beatrice.

Thank you for your support i will do my best! I had the temptation to do it again today but i haven't yet, focused on doing some exercise to try and take my mind off it. The damage is done with all the money i can't get back which is the thing that hurts the most! I want to tell my parents as they have known about it in the past i just don't want to worry them and put more stress on them

Please try and stay away from gambling today seany - you have been able to resisit temptation so far so when your staying away from online slots why not go in and withdraw any cash and get the accounts blocked ... That way when the urges become so strong that you have to act on them you wont be able to because your account is non accessible.. Good luck!

What a surprise lost the last bit of money that i had! It was inevitable it would happen sooner or later. Have cancelled my online accounts and have self excluded. Still doesn't make me feel much better as i now haven't eaten in two days because i have gambled all my money. I need to tell my mum but she will only go crazy at me which is more stress on her and me! Why do i do it to myself!

Seany firstly in sorry to hear that you lost the last of your money today - i hope that im wrong but from your comments im not really sure if you are completely ready to give it up yet. What i have done in the past couple of days in drawn up a plan of action which will show me exactly where my monthly wages will be going to - after bills etc i will have around 1200 to spend and i have drawn up a list of the things i want to buy for the next six months. By having a list of buying a lot of things i like the look of (one of those curvy tellys) is giving me the incentive to drive on and give up this once and for all. Why don't you be proactive and do something similar so you can show your mum that your serious and were you want to be - and you can do it.

How are you doing today seanny ... I hope everything is ok.

heya 🙂

not gambled since Sunday i know its not a long time but it hasn't been on my mind. I have a black rubber band on my wrist that i got given at the Gambling Clinic to remind me not to gamble which i had lost! Found it yesterday so hopefully that will give me some inspiration! I am in so much debt and don't know how i am going to survive the next few months as work starts to quiet down and money isn't as good as would be the previous months.

i really like the idea of a Diary or making a list of the things i want so i have something to focus on. Exercising has helped i am trying to change my lifestyle so that i am not just sat in on my lap top!

How are things with yourself?

Things aren't bad at all - i have self excluded from all of the bookies that i used to go into frequently and i have a few more photos in my wallet so that when i see a bookies that i may have forgotten about i can simply just go in a self exclude .... As we go into the last week before payday i still have quite a bit of money so ill be using it to buy some things for myself and my family instead of pumping it into a fobt - i can remember losing 500 in the space of about four minutes ... Looking back now its crazy and will never happen again!