I feel suicidal

If you'd have won would you give the bookies back their money?

Even if I did get a refund i know that money wouldn't last long. I'd find another sure thing or i'd chance it again eventually. Can you say you wouldn't be any different?

If you can then use this time to stop draw a line in the sand and stop gambling

You could call Gamcare to chat or i've called the Samaritans previously.

tri

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Hi russ I'm afraid your 700 pound has gone buddy. I've had those suicidal feelings myself but you just have to dust your self off and move on. Stay positive and think about the effect suicide would have on your partner and children's life they would have to live with the burden for the rest of there lives.

Hi mate I know exactly how you feel just 4 weeks ago I felt the same and attempted suicide was in hospital and am getting the help and support I need. Trust me mate whatever gambling you do it ain't worth your life for and as previous post says your wife and kid would suffer far more. Get the help advice and support that's about take it want it and do it mate it can be done and life is so much better fighting this disgusting addiction than giving in to it. 1 day at a time you can get through this and being on here is the 1st big step you've already taken. Good luck mate take the support and I wish you well x

I hope this is it the final time with my last bet 3 months ago and years of misery I am on here perhaps a small step but with 3 months wages and rent paid , a fridge full up with nice food and bills paid is great ! I have felt like suicide I just laid down and didn't want to wake up didn't wash much and looked a mess and the sweat caused by losing has its own smell of hell .

I have cleaned my act up , my self , I have had help which cleansed my mind of the temptation of Gambling their is hope I thank god and thank Gam care and their staff and helpers that my posts have got better not Worse I prey all of you can kick this evil habit and get the life you deserve not the Temptation that has recently is taking over more and more peoples lives short term with the help on here to each other .

i have lost thousands upon thousands in the matter of days and it makes me sick after i have lost every single penny i walk out of the amusements place and feel like i am a lost soul and feel like breaking down and crying. everytime i lose a large amount i say to myself thats it im not going back nomore, but the very next day i am back in there chasing my losses and losing even more. its a vicous cycle and as long as we keep on gambling these places will keep on popping up on every street corner because the profit the slot machines generate for the bookies are huggggggggggge

hey russ,

your thread title popped up into my eyes the very moment I accessed the intros section of this wonderful community. I feel for you my friend and I would like to help in any way I can. If I could give you 700 pounds right now, I am absolutely sure you would be happy for a short while until we would shake hands and you would go back to the devils den, to those slot machines, and not only I would harm you but I would harm others around you. So it isn't going to happen. Have faith in my words these disgusting little P****s who encourage gambling, promote gambling and basically throw gambling into your face to get you hooked and ruin your life, (but never can defeat you - they destroy you again they hurt you but never defeat my friend!), these worthless human beings would be ready to give your money back, even offer loan advising services for free, but why would you even think of that? Take a moment and understand they want you jailed into their business, to milk you for the rest of your life if possible.

My friend, I am also at my wits end, I'm hanging on the very end of the rope but still hanging and trying to climb back up the mountain called life, real life. Gambling has nothing to do with life, it is a pure trap for a category of people, such as depressed, lonely, frustrated, hurt, hopeless, angry, weak, people with addictive personality traits and the list can go on.

I would like you to understand that no amount of money lost is worth even giving a thought about leaving this beautiful world. And to be honest God will never allow you to do that, he hasn't allowed me in numerous cases, simply because God considers that no amount of gold is worth more than the life he gave me. This wonderful opportunity to live this life on his planet is a gift. A handful of money can never be a gift simply because money is not meant to be part of this universe, money is simply a tool that enables us to live our lives in this society. I do respect money now, I strongly believe we need to learn to respect money, not in the way we respect other things in life, but respect money for the fact that without them we cannot survive and they are a fraction of the fruit of our work, besides other properties, family , children, happiness and more.

I've been gamble free for more almost 9 months and I can now say with all my heart that I truly don't need to give another free dollar to anyone who honestly does not need the money, they have enough, and moreover they are selling dreams, nothing special there, I can dream on my own, I don't need to be sold dreams.

I strongly feel for you my friend, and would like to mention that I am just about to turn 30 and do not have any kind of family experience, do not have my own family but I do understand it is a holy thing that can happen in one's life. Your children need you man, they are your gold and diamonds. No other gold will ever make you happier besides your family.

I am still very low, not because of the hundreds of thousands lost over the past 16 years but because of the wounds gambling has left that still hurt, the opportunities lost, the people I disappointed and hurt, because of all the damage to my health, because the devil has managed to take control of me and mess with my motivation and love of life, but I'm climbing the mountain to the top once more, I will conquer the devil and this empowers me! I am free now, also broke, but free, took up drinking which I have cut down on and soon will also become history, I put my past behind and looking for that day when I will again enjoy a peaceful night, drinking my favorite tea looking at the stars and saying : I have managed to be a man and say destroy the devil, his traps have failed on me.

Read all you can on this board my friend you will find a lot of interesting information here, there is no difference between us all, besides the amounts of money lost, it will come back one way or another.

Let's love life!

ex gramber

Your 700 quid is gone buddy. FACT!! I am sorry for you, I am in the same position as you, I lost 260 in one night, yesterday evening last night I felt the same as you suicidal, I wanted not to wake up. But please buddy if you love your wife stick with her, I am lonely I am single never had a girlfriend and not many friends. Please mate, stick with your wife, give up gambling. Family is so important if she leaves you, you will miss her. Good luck with your problems I really hope you will be ok.

Sam