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Hello Kita

Welcome to the Forum where you will find help, support and identification.

Problem gambling is cunning, powerful and baffling and without help it is too much.

There is a way forward and along with this Forum we have Advisers available 24/7 to help you through this.  You can contact an Adviser by calling our Helpline on 0808 8020 133 or using our LiveChat Option.  I encourage you to contact us so we can discuss the best way to overcome the gambling issues you are currently dealing with.

Please know that you are not alone Kita....

Best

Amanda

Forum Admin

Hi Kita.

I am sorry to hear you are feeling vulnerable and in pain at this time.

I was consumed by my addiction for some and by attending recovery meetings I go to abstaing and heal my pains.

When I turned to gambling I was in fear.

It would cause an adrenline rush in me that I though was exciting and happiness.

In time I do not need to escape from myself or any one else.

It was helped by saying to myself just for today only I will not gamble.

By attending the meeting of GA I was aable to put clean time in.

When ever I did break out again and agin I got to understand what my emotional triggers were.

In time I would understand that the gambling addiction and my obsessions was just the symptoms that I was emotionally vulnerable, the emotional triggers indicated that I was vulnerable and reacted in some very unhealthy ways.

In my recovery I got to understand my emotional triggers, pains I could not heal, fears I could not face, frustrations due to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations, loneliness, and boredom.

I got to understand my anger was an unhealthy reaction to pains I could not heal, fears I could not face, frustrations due to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations.

I became selfish in my recovery, I did not want to self destroy myself and my family.

I also did not work for the rest of life, giving all my hard earned money to complete strangers, while I suffered in my pains.

Going to meetings became more and more important to my well being, in the meetings I got to understand more and more about how emotionallly vulnerable I was. 

I did not want to waste my life away, I did not want to my self or my family any more, I did not want to be a lonely isolated person any more.

I was will to exchange each unhealthy habit and exchange them in to healthy habits. 

When do you start to peel back the onion and expose the hurt inner child in you?

Love healing and peace to everyone.

Dave L

AKA Dave Of Beckenham UK

Just signed up and have no idea where I am writing and if its right. Neither do I know where to find the live chat-, If I click it only sends me to the same page.

same I am new here too Lola 

@koniosef 

Good Evening and Welcome to the Forum, 

On the forum you are able to start your own diary or you can reply to the posts of other forum users. 

Sorry that you have not been able to find how to contact us. May I suggest that you follow this link https://www.gamcare.org.uk/get-support/talk-to-us-now/ which will take you to the different methods of contacting us. 

We hope to hear from you soon and please do continue to post on the forum. 

All the best, 

Ricki

Forum Admin