I can’t do this anymore. Day 1 every day, but never happens. I am addicted to online slots, started during lockdown. The money I’ve lost makes me feel sick. I have borrowed money and every month playing catch up. Get paid gamble too much and chase loses through the month, wishing my life away waiting for next pay day. It’s making me ill. No one knows, well actually I think my family suspect there’s an issue. I am so ashamed. I self exclude from sites only to go and find another. I hold down a professional job by day, by night I’m a different person. Stay up til all hours spinning away, don’t eat for days. Just not normal behaviour.
I argue with myself knowing it’s wrong but the devil takes over and I’m back spinning away. Hoping for a big win to get me out of the mess I’ve created (it would need to be a massive win).
Ive lied to loved ones and friends and hate the person ive become, i dont recognise myself anymore.
but im stopping now. To save myself, money and mental health.
any advice would be appreciated.
Gamstop is for you it will blanket ban for uk sites online.Moses betting shops , gamban which is available for free. In answer to your questin does gambling make you ill.Yes it has affected my helath greatly like you i'm sick of it, we're all sick of this vile addiction.Its no use winning because you just gamble more when we win .More ammunition we have ( money ) the more we gamble.Accept defeat and walk away from gambling.
You can do it, im 5 years gambling free and my speciality was online slots and roulette….. it all started in 2009 when w**********l vegas first came about, back when you had to play them type of games on your PC or Laptop, so the story goes…I received a promo email and I received £50 free credit one saturday morning…built up the profit after wagering requirements and got down to my last £50 but I had to leave my house as I was late for an appointment, so I maxed my stake to £50 and hit spin….time froze as my laptop started spitting coins out on the screen, yep it happened and it was the beginning of my downfall….. I won but it all went back in and some. So theres my intro and I wanted to share that so you could understand I was exactly the same as you, down to a tee all of the emotions and secrecy. I am now 5 years clean and my starting point was Gamstop which I highly recommend. Following that I searched up hypnotist videos on youtube to stop gambling as I was desperate and believe it or not It worked…before your sceptical I would try it. For me anytime I see the color Red it triggers a sick feeling and fear of gambling. Crazy I know but yeah. I hope you take our advice and pray you see the other side of it.
Hi Ladies123
Thanks for posting on my thread. I really hope things improve for you. Slots are so addictive i understand that.
Stay strong you can do this
Toad 🐸
The best thing I did was tell my husband and close people, I felt like once I told them my
issue it nearly took the power that gambling had on me. A big moment was when I rang the bank to say please block gambling from my card and I was so upset and hard on myself it took a lot to do it but once I did I felt it was the first step in the right direction.
i attend weekly counselling , and I tried to kinda think of my gambling as this person who wanted to catch me out at times of boredom or weakness so the best thing I could do was when I felt logical was to put in blockers so that in moments of weakness I could say well you can’t gamble your cards won’t work, your blocked from sites and I had limited access to money, I’m 170 days gamble free and I’m starting to regain trust in myself slowly, having more access for money and being able to not worry about spending or little things like going for coffee because I actually have the money.
you can conquer this ! But you have to tell someone and gain that power back in yourself ! Full support behind you day 1 slowly turns into day 2 to go into day 3 just take each day as it comes any day gamble free is a big achievement
@k-d that’s interesting I’m going to try to watch the hypnotherapy videos, anything to stop this.
@bnqhud1wt2 Thanks for you response. I really can’t tell anyone at the moment, I can’t deal with their disappointed at the moment. They just wouldn’t believed what I’ve done, I can’t believe it myself most of the time.
I haven’t had a great week so far. I just can’t get out of my head that I will have that big win and everything will be ok but the sensible side of me knows that isn’t going to happen.
@ladies123 I can’t remember which one I watched but im sure this is the channel “Bossing Thoughts”.
Let me know how you get on, I understand what your going through, I really do… maybe when temptation starts to creep in, come straight back here and message us we will talk you out of it the best we can. Light is at the end of the tunnel my friend
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