Just to say hello really.
My gambling isn't so bad that I've spent my savings or anything, but I do tend to spend my entire wage on gambling (after paying rent and bills etc) every month rather than saving for a mortgage, and I constantly live in a massive overdraft that I've managed to get away with still having from my old student account (I graduated in 2007) in Psychology (!) I have read studies about MRI scans while people gamble and that when there is a win, the same part of the brain is stimulated as you would see in an individual on C*****e...this makes me understand that it's an addiction a little more.
It still frustrates me that I still do it and can't get myself out of the rut.
I quit my job, and so now I have more time to gamble and less money to do it with! I literally have no self control or will power, like I've never tried to change how I am because I just know that I won't be able to! Ugh, it sounds so silly typing it out. I'm just ranting I guess.
I've joined here in order to do something other than gamble I suppose! I tend to do it when I've been paid and when I'm alone, and as my boyfriend works nights 2 weeks out of every four that's a lot of time. Both in the day while he's sleeping and then the nights when he's not here I just gamble the entire time, and I've got soooo many accounts on so many sights that I don't even know how many I have anymore. I have self excluded myself from some, or where I couldn't find that option I've just copied and pasted new random passwords and that extra step of having to request your password tends to make me rethink, but then I'll just join another one! I wish there wasn't so many, and I wish there weren't so many adverts all the time for it!
If it was cash I had to gamble, like it was physical, I wouldn't do it to half the extent I do it online. It's just so easy, and it's just typing numbers! I'm determined to stop doing this and find a job and just earn money, save and occasionally buy nice things for myself. I find myself being really tight and mean with money and go to great lengths to save money, but will happily gamble loads of it away? It's so backwards! My Dad had to remortgage his flat because of gambling. He no longer goes on slots but does have a daily bet on the horses, which he has under control, but I definitely think there's a genetic predisposition to it.
I'll stop now!
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The best advice I can give you on how to live your life normally is to stop gambling! The more time you can put between the present and the last time you gambled, the clearer your thoughts may become enabling you to work things out
You could read some other posts on here. Those by day@atime and Duncanmac are good examples to some
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Hello is my first day here. If I'm here is because I don't trust me anymore and I think maybe this will be helpful. I play anything without any consideration. Not once I gambled rent money or even my wife's money.
I think I need some financial advices and help to make a recover plan till is not too late. I still can fix it but I need support.
Hi George... all is not lost! You've come to the right place. Just promise to me that you'll never gamble again. Go on make that promise! And I'll make you stick to it.
Hi Gem - you sound like you're on the right path! Good luck!
Thanks Change. I can't make any promise last few hundred was all lies at the end. I'm here because I don't find a reason to stop. Even to become a homeless doesn't look bad for me.
If you think becoming homeless isn't bad then you're past my help! That's crazy behaviour that is totally irrational and plain stupid. Snap out of feeling sorry for yourself and get on with life. Ditch the gambling and the nonsense talk. Love life. Good luck.
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