hi ive just lost another £400 tonight online, £175 today in the bookies, £350 on thursday in the bookies, i cant cope with this anymore im so sick of it.
ive closed all my online accounts, im supposed to be self excluded from all my local bookies but this is not working. i always seem to find another online bookie to P**s my money away with.
i know i have a problem ive known for years, i keep trying and trying but nothing is working. im sick of it what am i supposed to do.
HELP....
Breathe & then breathe again! You may feel very much alone @ the moment but you have come to the right place! I tried for years & years & coming here has been my salvation! I still have a long way to go but if I can do it, anyone can!
There are lots of tools to address this addiction that has crippled many of us for many years & the most important one in the early days is to break your Time-Money-Location triangle! Removing one prevents you from gambling & this can be done by handing over finances, self exclusion & downloading blockers if you gamble online, keeping busy etc then there are other things to help address the cause of gambling as you are likely to have one! Why not look @ GA or give Gamcare a call & see what they suggest? One Day At A Time this can be beaten & we are all here supporting each other! Why not start a recovery diary or join one of the Challenges (there is a 2015 one running all year or a 90 day one in progress by Sandra12)?
Welcome to recovery memyselfandi š
Time to put on those gloves & start fighting for your life - ODAAT
thanks for your reply i will be calling gamcare tomorrow, i need some sort of counciling ,i have tried everything i can to stop myself but now i need help i cant do it on my own now.
I did everything I thought possible @ the time but I was just trying to control my gambling (well stop losing if I'm honest) & as a CG, that's why I failed every time! We cannot win because we cannot stop! Every time I ran out of money/was kicked out @ closing time, I promised myself never again! I went home, rejigged my finances, increased a credit limit, took out another loan worked out to the second when I would finally be straight...Broken promises to myself, finding ways round my withdrawal limits, wasting petrol driving further & further away to get to shops that I had not excluded from. Reading that I had to stop gambling to fix the problem horrified me but I have only one regret now, not doing it sooner! As my good friend Ade2 pointed out, recovery is possible & here is a great place to start your journey!
Never give up on giving up! You can do this...All you need to figure out is how to choose 'No' every day - ODAAT
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