So over summer I won £70,000 in a night, P****d up. I was living the dream. A week later I had £40,000 left of it. Not long after i lost it all chasing it all back. I now have £0 left and everytime i get money I put it straight into the bookies. Im depressed, I feel I've let my girlfriend and my family down. I can't stop gambling at all. I'm always thinking when I can gamble next. I'm only 23 and I've gambled since I was 18.
I don't know where to go from here.
Any help and advice is appreciated.
Stan555555, from here, you need to go to recovery otherwise you will end up sad, depressed & very very poor. It may feel like you can't stop gambling but with the right help & support, we all can!
You need to break the Time-Money-Location triangle as taking away 1 removes your ability to gamble. There are lots of hints & tips on here as well as speaking to Gamcare who I understand can help you with GA or counselling.
You are only young, with your whole life ahead of you, start now, don't be like me, almost twice that age, wishing with every aching bone in my body I had realised @ your age I needed help!
The money you had was never yours in the 1st place (our addiction only allows us short term loans from bookies etc), but regardless, you need to let it go & move on, I would suggest letting someone else handle your money for a while if @ all possible?
In any case, you have come to the right place for advice & support welcome to recovery - ODAAT
Highlights how winning isn't the "dream" we imagine, it just makes the stakes and the losses bigger. It also makes us think we are invincible and when we lose it all we desperately want it all back.
Winning or losing, gambling is our worst enemy.
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