Hi all
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Ive been a gambling addict (slots) for around 10 years. Big, big losses and am circa 50k in debt.Â
I’ve self excluded/gamstop but there always seems to be somewhere I can find a slot machine.Â
I can see my life being so much better, very quickly, if I can stop.Â
I have my first hypnotherapy session next week. I wondered if anyone else has tried this and would share their experience of it?
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I found ‘how to stop gambling’ by Alan Carr very helpful but not longer term.Â
I really want to crack this once and for allÂ
I haven't, but it certainly seems like a good idea, good luck with it 👍 might be worth letting people know how you get on with your experience as could possibly benefit people in the future 👍
Hi, I'll be following this as I thought about doing the exact same thing...good luck x
Thanks both, I have my first session next Thursday and I’ll update after it.Â
It’s £145 for a 2 hour session - but literally I’ll burn £500 in an hour sometimes on slots so this is a good investment.Â
He feels confident he can ‘cure’ me but I’ll keep an open mind and see how it goes. It’s a cross between hypnotherapy and CBT so fingers crossed!
Hi
I thought I’d give an update - I had my hypnotherapy session on Thursday.Â
It was great! Although I have no access to anything other than Apple pay (and have gambling blocks on) I don’t feel the constant planning that I did before, where I’d be planning where or when I can go to the casino/bookies to play on the slots to ‘make some money’Â
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I saw an advert on the TV today and it occurred to me that I haven’t actually thought about gambling once since Thursday. It all seems rather absurd when I think about my flawed thinking of trying to repay debt by gambling more money on a machine.Â
I am many, many thousands of pounds in debt, that I am able to make payments on each month and could sort it out relatively quickly.Â
I now see an end to this, keep focussed on paying down the debt and go back to a decent life.Â
I’ll update a week/month later but at the moment, I think it was well worth the outlay to do
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