It started with a £10 free bet...

Hey aim good to speak to you on the chat just now, i thought you were a male so please forgive me for calling you mate on the chat.

I think your story is a typical case of gambling sucking you in and making you feel like you cannot lose its easy money! but then before you start to think straight the damage has already been done pretty much the same case for myself.

I wish you all the luck possible and would urge you to think about getting blocking software as soon as possible... K9 is completely free and the one i use and has seriously helped me from relapsing and has probably saved me hundred in the last 26 days alone. If you decide on k9 u just need someone to have the password thatway you wont be able to override the blocker

Best wishes

Bazza

Hey Aim

Join the club on here, im 20 and have loans and well in my overdraft! You have done the right thing coming on here to get advice and help. Good luck and try and log on here everyday!

Jack

I am in same situation. Have been gambling for 4years now - it only gets worse if you do not stop. I am currently have 2 loans and maxed out over draft and 3 credit cards.

I just keep thinking that im young enough to turn this around. Keep positive

Jodie x

dont worry bazzza - i usually call everybody mate/buddy all the time. Im seen as one of the guys at work anyway so it doesnt phase me!

Thanks for the advice though everyone. Im definitely going to log into this everyday. Ive self excluded from one site but i just cant bring myself to do it to the others and i hate myself for not being able to! It just seems so stupid knowing that I work my absolute a** off to get the small wage that I do get and yet I waste it away so easily. With stuff to pay for, you'd think it would be easy to say 'no' but instead you think the opposite. Its not easy and its going to be a long journey yet i think however I already love the community of people on here! Its been so helpful already.

Definitely got to think that we're still young enough to turn it around but its just going to take time I guess. Good luck to all of you trying to swerve this!

As for software ...... my mobile phone is the worst culprit. I delete Apps but then either re-install them or sign upto a new one! Need to stop it.

get a basic phone hard to gamble on those

Hello, I was just viewing the forum this morning, wasn't going to post but I saw this and it's so similar to my situation ! I'm a 24 year old female and started gambling on bingo when I was 18, on the good old slots by a few months, already had loads of debt, won 12k and paid everything I owe off ! Now I am in the same debt and i am paying more out a month, iv had to borrow money off my family which makes me riddled with guilt ! I feel sick now just writing this post ! As everything is so raw for me ! I can't eat, I can't sleep! But as of today my dad is taking over my income, I have an allowance spare of 70 pound a week to live on and hopefully no way of getting in any more debt ! I do sympathise because it's horrible, I just want to give you a huge hug ! Lol, it will be ok ! Self exclusion is the way forward xx

Hey just seen this post today and would like to say you have done the right thing signing up here. I'm 23 myself and been gambling on horses/slots since I was 15. It all started when I used to bet my €20 lunch money at the start of the week and like you won a few times meaning I could bet more.then got to college and I started betting larger sums of money, would use my months student grant to gamble and more often than not lose it all within a week. I have borrowed money from friends/family etc and used this money to gamble.

I had to borrow €2000 of my parents in November last year to help pay back a debt I owed and I swore to them I wouldn't bet again. But then Cheltenham week came around and I felt myself slipping back into it putting on silly bets trying to cover my losses. I'm now back on here trying to sort my life out. I would highly recommend self excluding from all sites you are on as like you I only self excluded from some the last time and this made it much easier for me to bet again. Make it as hard as possible for you to access these sites and just take it one step at a time 🙂

Hi Aimz

Like you I got hooked into the on line gambling world and it very nearly destroyed me. It’s taken me 10 years to get to the point whereby I’m now finally beginning to be free from the nightmare of on line gambling. Time and again I would say to myself I’m never going to do it again only to find myself gambling again a short time later. The truth is every time I said I was never going to do it again I honestly meant it. I can appreciate this may sound strange but it was true. I knew I shouldn’t gamble and that I didn’t want to gamble but I always found myself gambling and repeatedly thinking to myself “why the hell am I doing this to myself.”

To say my head was battered with trying to figure out how to stay stopped would be an understatement. I would self-exclude from one site and then find myself opening up another account with another on line casino. Yup slots were my poison also. No matter how much I won it was never enough and I always wanted to win more. Time and again I would say to myself I’ll cash out my winnings but I never could cash out. I would continue playing until my card would; be declined due to having cleared out my account. The pain loneliness and isolation of gambling was horrendous. Regularly I contemplated suicide yet I still couldn’t stop. In the end I’ve placed a gambling blocker program on my pc which is the best thing I have ever done. TXNogam you can google it and it costs about £20 to block you from all on line gambling sites.

I’m also using this site and going to GA which is helping me loads.

Hope this is of some help to you.

All the best.