I'm Albert,I've been gambling for 28 years;I'm 43 and this disease has haunted me all my adult life.
I've been on this site before,I'm not really new,I know all the tools to quit,I'm excluded from every,I mean every bookies on the planet. I think I'm even addicted to trying to find new bookies to open accounts.
I'm now without a debit/credit card which is a enormous help.
I was made bankrupt in 98,as a youngster,I attended ga shortly after,had periods of abstence,but always eventually returned to gambling
My problem has always been I've always thought I could win.
Horses,sports have always been my thing.
Unlike fobts;I've always thought there is a chance with horses.
I've been following a successful tipster the past 9 months,as soon as I start upping the stakes on his selections - u guessed it he picks every 2nd;each way 4th,faller possible.
My discipline goes out the window and I'm back in the poor house.
I think there is something mentally wrong with me,I don't think it's possible to not gamble,tho I've made it virtually impossible to get a bet on.
Hers to day 1 of a new life
With no credit/debit card, then you obviously have other ways to bet, so those sources also need to be cut also.
It's no doubt teaching grandma to suck eggs, with you, but gambling fool proof method don't generally work (I know several people who thought the double up on the FOBT roulette method worked at first). Even if the odd one works, though loopholes via bookies or special offers, it normally has severe restrictions so that you earn very little and a gambler greed always wants more, so will just aim to win bigger and end up losing bigger.
You just need to really go back to basics and start again, but it would seem that cutting access to virtually all monies is most defintiely the best way to start. Whatever ways you do that, you need to do that.
Good luck and get a diary going.
Sorry, Albert but betting is on random outcomes, there's no scope for skill. Your tipster is probably also a CG.
What will change things is blocking the access to cash and going back to GA. Also stirring the deeps, looking honestly at what the act of gambling gives you (it isn't money) and why you need it.
I have to respectfully disagree with Steve on one point: you don't need luck. Too random. You need commitment to recovery and that has to come from you.
Wish you well.
CW
Thanks for your comments Steve,cynical wife and half life,I'm making today the turning point in my life.
Steve - my last access to gambling was a local independent bookie that I've now excluded from,I did the sense exclusion thing back in march but they don't cover independent bookies or didn't back in march.
I've exhausted all avenues to placing bets unless I travel 30 + miles which is impossible as I work local have no transport or time.
I'm now fully committed,I have funds in the shape of an overdraft that I'm going to need to fund a course I need to do to hopefully to start a new career.
Your right half life I've been round the block,I know gambling is a mugs game,u can't win,even if you have golden bullocks you always want more.
Cynical wife I'm still blinded by gambling at the moment,I want to believe it's all luck,the tipster I followed was free,very knowledgeable;and believe me I really will his selections to lose but amazingly he has kept winning - it's all irrelevant to people like me,I could never have enough on a winning selection.
Thanks for input,I know I have to completely erase all these thoughts from my head;forget about gambling and concentrate on the future gamble free.
I've started a diary,day 1 has been productive;reading this site has been a wake up call again.
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