I want to stop

Hello, thank you for sharing! You put all the bans in place which is great and I know there are certain sites, but remember they will take your money and it’s not worth it. 

Have you called Gam Care for 1-2-1 support? I had my first session today and I feel so much better and stronger. 

What have you put in place to keep you occupied? Like what do you enjoy doing? 

@kaoj91ymxz 

I need more bans. I’ve blocked my credit cards but the sites outside of the uk let you do it.   Facebook floods me with ads even I’ve tried to hide them all. The gambling sites call my phone and message all the time. I don’t know how to stop it. I feel hounded by them all the time. 

I have seen people talking about the 1-2-1 and maybe I should give that a go first. 

I haven’t put anything in place yet. It was Sunday morning I knew I needed help and found this. So here I am starting for real and recognising I need help.

@kaoj91ymxz 

I need more bans. I’ve blocked my credit cards but the sites outside of the uk let you do it.   Facebook floods me with ads even I’ve tried to hide them all. The gambling sites call my phone and message all the time. I don’t know how to stop it. I feel hounded by them all the time. 

I have seen people talking about the 1-2-1 and maybe I should give that a go first. 

I haven’t put anything in place yet. It was Sunday morning I knew I needed help and found this. So here I am starting for real and recognising I need help.

That’s great… well for Sunday morning you’ve done a lot already I assumed you were further in! 

you can WhatsApp Gam care or call them about the 1-2-1 and also ask them to give you a link for Gam Ban - they will provide you with a free link and once downloaded onto your phone, laptop etc… it won’t let you get on any casino website even ones abroad! Hope that all helps! Each day at a time but you’ve done great for getting on gam stop and coming on here! 

Hi colette welcome (i was initially welcomed on saturday) and keep posting on here and we can all help each other on our journeys.  Today is a new day and this is my 2nd gamble free day and i do all i can to make tomorrow the 3rd.  However the more i think about it the more i feel it is just today that is important and if we focus on being gamble free today then the numbers grow by themselves.  

hopefully here more from you soon.  

@kaoj91ymxz

Sunday morning I knew I needed to get more help. I started gambling last year. Never even did it before that. I’m not having any luck stopping on my own. I signed up for the gamban in December the one that stops you logging on in the UK. I get confused between the two. I also tried gamstop the one that blocks you viewing the sites online and you put software on your devices. But I’m resourceful and figured out how to remove it when I wanted to gamble and then put it back after. So that was a waste of time for me. I finally maxed out my credit cards last week. I found the unfreeze button on on online banking. Even though I had called the bank to freeze them. I found myself here Sunday looking for help. The blockers don’t block me. I wish I out this much energy into positive things! 

@bvwm5ahknu Hi Tom, well done for 2 days in! And that’s good advice. As you say all the days will add up soon. I really want to make it to my first month. I’ll be made up! I’m actually day 1 now I think about it as it was after midnight on Saturday I lost it all again. I hope Sunday 27 April is the last time I ever gamble. I am finding it useful here as the shame and guilt is crippling. The debt anxiety never leaves my head. If I stay strong I’ll be debt free in 3 years. 

How are you doing? 

We all need to start somewhere and you have started with admitting you have a problem so well done taking that first step…I started with a call to gamble aware, they gave me support in how to speak to my family and gave me details of debt management agencies. I then told two close friends that were close to me but not financially connected so they had no bias on money…Put every gambling stop software you can onto all your devices, I then called the debt management agencies as they all had different snippets of advice. Dont make a decision on how to manage the debt until you speak to each one and make a plan going forward. I then went to the doctor, and offloaded in a safe space on everything that had made me gamble in the first place, also have had several counselling sessions, which again helped with just offloading my thoughts in a safe space and building the courage to address the elephant in the room with my family… I then started with chipping away at the debts that were becoming unaffordable and the cards that had the highest interest rates. I told my family, my head was fried, from the stress and anxiety of the deep hole I had found myself in. I’m now 46 days gamble free, gone from a very poor credit score to fair in that time (increase of 260 points) - I can afford to have a little treat now and again and I have just invested my time now in work and trying to clear the debt I have made. My head feels much clearer. (Was also suffering from a severe deficiency in Vit D - which makes you feel tired and miserable so well worth a visit to the doctors)… it’s no where near as uncommon as you think… keep telling yourself you can do this and it’s FIXABLE!!