HI ALL

Hello Steve,

Welcome to the forum. A similar gambling correar as myself. You'll find many on here with similar stories and going through similar battles in kicking this S****e addiction in to touch.

Keep close, post and read, you'll get good advice and support.

I wish you well..

Cheers not going to be easy but going to give it best shot hopefully never to old to learn made some bad choices and excuses.

Wish sometimes could turn back clock .

Hopefully the younger gamblers get the cahnce to change while there still young.

Never to old to learn Steve. Hit the diary section and you'll see alot of us old fookers kicking about.

There's alot of good people here, build up a possee. Read, post, spew and support.

I get you with the technophobic but there will be at least one thing you'll get from this forum and thats getting over that..

Cheers where is the diary section told ya technophobic

You'll find it. Someone smarter than moi will come along.

Go to forums and you'll see all the different categories..

Good luck Steve

That was helpful V 😉 Hi Steve, I haven't come along to tell you how to...I can't remember! I just wanted to poke fun @ my mate! I'm one of the 'young uns' according to my GamCare Pops (ALAN135 - I think that's how old he is) & my dazzling career only lasted about 3 decades but I've got this recovery working for me & I'm gonna fight tooth & nail never to go back!

I'm guessing you're an 'old skool' gambler & for me I started my recovery with self excluding. It's not fool proof coz I eventually had to hand my finances over to my long suffering other half to manage (cringe) but any barrier that helps make it harder to gamble helps with abstaining. Breaking your gambling triangle (Time-Money-Location, remove one & you cannot gamble) is key because we cannot win as we cannot stop. Most people have a reason for gambling that can be explored with the tools on here, counselling (offered free by GamCare) or GA, I haven't found my reason (too lazy to look) yet but for me the biggest thing was drawing a line under my losses & taking it One Day At A Time.

You're never too old to fight for your future - ODAAT

Cheers yeh im old school horses greyhounds fly on the wall .Stand in betting shop for hours looking at screen im the shouter who lets eveyone know when i win .But when i lose go out with that horrible feeling in ya gut.My partner i have been with for 7 years knows only a small part off it but has noticed more recently so thats why i realise i am going down the same old road.

The difference this time its going to come from me and others i hope like yourself who understand .I have now excluded myself from 20 mile radius stood at the post box with the last letter which i felt difficult to put in but did.

Still young at heart only been uneployed for one day in 43 years not going to waste the next years hiding things from people and wasting my money.Onwards and upwards.My last winner was Red rum lol

I'm the one on the machine, busy multi tasking, picking out random horses/ dogs. Missing the race as occupied in the spinning ball, getting annoyed at people watching me do my bollxx and the ones shouting there horses in..And P****d off with the ones who had there money on red rum☺... pretty much equals a sad f**k.

Oh well, better late than never....

Chalk and cheese but both still lose.

Anyway no more of that stupidty time to move on and enjoy things.