Good morning all,
I am new here so just wanted to introduce myself. I have struggled with gambling over last 13 months. I went through savings I had and now I find myself around £20,000 in debt. I feel such a fool and I am disgusted at the money I have wasted. I had a heavy loss yesterday and that was the final straw. I am trying to keep active going to gym to try and reduce my urges.Â
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I just feel like I have a mountain to climb. I can afford payments at the moment however I have no savings now as my emergency fund I used to gamble and lost it all.Â
I registered with GameStop and this has been great with stopping online temptations. My problem has been physically going into the bookies as I have one about 5 minute walk away.Â
Just really want this sickness feeling to go away and if family knew they would be furious with me. I do plan to tell them but I want to get this addiction under control first and get my level of debt down so I feel a bit better at least.Â
I hope you carry on going to the gym Andrew, Politely ask the bookmakers if you can be permanently banned, Install Gamban on all of your accessible devices "In my eyes more powerful than gamstop" Remember money isn't everything in life being healthy and spending time with freinds are family will help and when the time is right confide in them because it will be a big weight lifted off your shoulders keep going tonthr gym and stay strong remember this is not for ever if you stop now life will drastically get better comming from some one that has been in your shoes .. Take careÂ
thanks for this messageI hope you carry on going to the gym Andrew, Politely ask the bookmakers if you can be permanently banned, Install Gamban on all of your accessible devices "In my eyes more powerful than gamstop" Remember money isn't everything in life being healthy and spending time with freinds are family will help and when the time is right confide in them because it will be a big weight lifted off your shoulders keep going tonthr gym and stay strong remember this is not for ever if you stop now life will drastically get better comming from some one that has been in your shoes .. Take careÂ
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Hi Andrew if bricks and mortar bookies are your main problem in the uk perhaps contacting the moses scheme would be your best bet it's quick and easy to sign up too they will send you a link to upload a photo too then you can advise them what bookies you want too bar yourself from they will then send your photo to all the bookies effectively barring yourself from gambling in these premises also use gamban to block you from online gambling and also contact your bank to block any gambling transactions which you can also do yourself through online banking
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