Hi all ,
Signed up to gambstop today , I’ve had enough. I’ll try keep it short as possible. My addiction was online live black jack it started off around £200-300 a hand, moving up to £0000’s. I lost my first 5 figure sum last year around about £15k. All in all I’ve probably lost around £70,000. Now I currently stand at around £40k in debt still , (I did once think of suicide) I was at that much of a low point in my life from it. So I’m trying to keep the most positive outlook on life as I can at the moment. I have a good job , I’m paying around £1200 in Debts off a month . I’ve got my own house and car and a lovely girlfriend and I thought I needed to put a stop to it before I lose everything. As it stands Im the only one responsible for getting myself in this debt and 5 years time I should be clear. Now Im barred off all online gambling websites, so i cannot be tempted anymore. It’s a sickening feeling losing the money and I felt like signing up to these forums and posting I’d meet people going through the same thing and have suffered the same. I’m trying to stay as positive as I am as the debt for me is manageable , as well as my mortgage and other things , I still have money to do the things I like. I guess the only way of looking at it now is , I’m in this situation , it’s manageable (when I say manageable, I mean it’s something I HAVE to do to get out of it so there’s no other way of looking at it. Just wanted to meet Few more people going through same thing. I had a little relapse Sunday after the football and lost £8k and I’ve been stressed the past few days and now it’s time to stop and stay positive . I still have my health and other nice things like my girlfriend.
Anyway be nice to hear from some of you other guys out there 🙂
Good Evening all
I'm new to this today myself, I'm a young 28 year old professional who has become devulged into the depths of gambling and its running my mental physical and financial health.
I have taken a proactive approach as I'm only 1k in debt but have lost all my savings and struggling to stay on top of direct debits
Bank have gave me a tactic to get out of debt in 5 months by reducing my overdraft
I'm determined to stay off gambling now as I have lost the value of money whichh is against my personality.
I have banned myself from online and local betting shops
Any good advice for me guys and girls
Lets be one team and beat this together
Hi, when i look at new posts on here, i try to get something out of it to make me feel better, i know it's sad but it's true. I read your post and i know how you feel. I'm addicted to online slots, i recently started to play again and was up by around 3.5k. It was such hard work and a rollacoaster of emotions getting to that amount. I didn't go to sleep until around 6am one morning as i was still playing and had to have a day off work. Then you guess the rest, day off work gambling, went down to 1k, back up to 2.6k, banked it. Once it hit my bank, started playing again, to cut the story short i'm now 1.7k down. I lost so much sleep that i thought i was going to die, i didn't eat properly which didn't help either, because i was more interested in pressing a button.
There comes the time when YOU know it's time to say goodbye. It hurts, that voice in my head about what i could have done with the money, it drives me insane, it's in my head all day and night. Also the beating myself up about why did i do it, i know it's all a ripoff and i'll end up worse off, but i still choose to do it thinking that i'll hit that 1.3mil jackpot, or 8.5mil, whatever, it's a dreamworld. Like you i have everything i need, but something is missing, my happiness is not complete without gambling, but i'm never happy gambling and losing loads of money, it's messed up.
After all said and done it's about making good decisions and consequences of actions. Just stop gambling and debts will reduce/go, health improves, relationships improve, sleep pattern improves, work improves, concentration improves, everything get's beter apart from that dream of winning big, that never goes away.
It's all individual, we can all have a gambling addiciton but i believe it's all personal. I have good friends who say call me if your going to gamble, i don't call anyone. I live in my little secret world of dreams that nobody is allowed anywhere near. If i'm going to gamble my friends are the last people i want to tell, nobody can stop me apart from me.
I hope you do whatever is best for you to get over sunday after the football. What helps me is when people say 'it's only money'. There's nothing really anyone can say to help, but to know you're not alone, you're not the only one who does these things can help. Time, time is the healer. Stay positive.
Hi mate, Well I think these forums do good for that, it makes you realise other people are in and have been in the exact same situation as ourselves 🙂 I just upped my debt payments today, spent last 3 hours on phones, upping over payments on loans etc. Sold some of my shares, which I think is the best thing to do (even though I didnt want too) to pay off some more debt. Feeling good, despite the debts, I think the only way to look forward is in a positive state of mind. At end of day whats happened is in the past we can't change any of that, we have to move forward and not let ourselves slip again. Stop before its too late.
Positive well being and attitude, 4 years time, I could be debt clear, ill be 30 then, 26 now, which I've had my house for over 1 year now as long as don't jeapordise any of that which now i've quit I won't.
Nice to hear from you guys
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