FOBT problem

Hi new beginning,

it's going well.....well as well as it can on Cheltenham week, I know you only ever hear about the winners but it's the talk of the site so I am struggling this week, I go on holiday Sunday so I am just taking a day at a time and counting down, it will be two weeks clean Sunday.....two long weeks I won't lie!! But I do feel a bit stronger by the day, my new addiction is horribly working out in my head what people are up and Dow, which does not effect me in the slightest but bugs me!!

i have noticed how ratty a friend can be when he loses, and unapproachable, I never noticed this before so made me think maybe I'm looking at things a bit differently, I'm also finding the constant talk of gambling a bit f*****g boring now I'm not involved. It's hard but day by day I feel stronger.

unfortunately I still haven't excluded from my main bookies, I have to do this I know, I just keep finding excuses with work etc,, thanks for asking though!!

hope you're keeping well mate!!

I'm two weeks on Sunday as well but I'm off on a lads weekend today so temptation will be big but I'm determined and feel positive. Get your a**e in the bookies and self exclude yourself who cares what people say or whisper the people in there aren't your mates. Good luck and stay strong,we've got this beat!!!!

Hi! Just read your thoughts,happy to read how is your recovery going. 🙂
I'd like to adviceyou to Do your self exclusion when you have time. Me and many of my colleagues happy to do self exclusion. You dont look weak, no one would lough on you or anything like that, myself an addict too, but at work i wish nice customers who visibly has problem to do exclusion.

Thank you universal mind, I hope your recovery is going well!! I appreciate those comments, I have always found self exclusion my biggest flaw, almost like I need that fallback, I know once I do it, it takes away my biggest weakness in the machines. So I appreciate that from a actual member of staff!! I have excluded from one company, but not one I massively use so I need to grab the bull by the horns and do it......

I hope you've had a good weekend new beginning and managed to resist temptation!! I know I need to do this, I have just been working so hard up to holiday so finding time is hard (excuse after excuse) I'm off on holiday myself today so should be relatively easy to resist any kind of temptation this week, then be time to tell the missus when I get back!! Two weeks today mate, long May it continue, I know what the weeknd must of been like, it's hard when put in that situation, especially with fruit machines in pubs, football on all day and night etc etc etc.....etc...... I hope you got through it mate.

Well my lads weekend away was brill,great laugh and loads of drink. Was good to catch up with mates I only see once a year. As for the gambling I did well. I never set foot in a bookies 🙂 nine of us did a coupon and picked a team each and put in £2 each. I know that it's still technically gambling but I'm happy about it. Some of the bars we were in had bookies next door or opposite but I never went in. To much to lose and I'm determined now,hopefully the fog is lifting! Hope your enjoying your holiday mate,keep up the good work

Hey pompeyguy31 how's it going? I had a small slip up the other week,nothing to major but it was still a slip up and reminds me how fragile my recovery is but also in a funny sort of way has given me a renewed determination to overall defeat this terrible addiction. I feel positive and more importantly happy and in a good place things in general are going well. I've changed certain things in my routine to help like going another route home only taking out the money i need and not kidding mysel on that i need £100 to go and get a loaf which we all know ultimtely ends in £100 down and no loaf lol I hope you had a good holiday and have made some inroads to sorting things with your missus,stay strong and remember we can't win because we can't stop!