Miserable life gambling for 15 years

Hi , I can feel the pain that you have , the only person can help you is your self , remember that if you want to stop you will stop , and never ever chase your loose what is going it’s never coming back trying to think positive and promise your self to stop at lest from now on , and good luck.

Hi Alison, 

Let me reassure you that you are not alone. I have been a gambler for almost 20 years and currently in 50k debt. I have had breaks from it in the past but always knew I wanted to go back to it. I have this time contacted the charities available to get my finances slowly back on track and being receiving help from gamcare. 

I am currently proud to say yesterday marked a 3 month point gamble free. Not only that my mental health feels lots better and I feel I am heading in the right direction. It will be a long road, as it will for yourself but take it hour by hour, week by week and day by day. Eventually you will get some pride and purpose back in your life. 

All the best.

Hi

Thank you for your honesty.

I felt so helpless walking in to the recovery program.

I did not understand that I was escaping to my addictions and obsessions because I could not cope emotionally in healthy ways.

I kept going to meetings even though I thought I would be the last person on this panet to stop gambling.

In time I would understand more about myself.

I had certain emotional triggers and would escape to gambling.

My emotional triggers were my pains I could not heal.

My emotional triggers were my fears I could not reduce.

My emotional triggers were due to my unreasonabale expectations of people life and situations..

By having such high expectations I was in effect hurting my self.

My emotional triggers were my feelings of being a loner.

My emotional triggers were the fact I felt so bored and could not get my a*s motivated in to healthy habits.

In my recovery I started to write down my needs my wants and my goals.

This helped me stay focused on becoming more productive and also more self sufficient.

The simple truth I had lost all faith and hope in myself.

Because I felt so guilty and ashamed and filed with regret that I assumed that I was a abd person.

That was nto the case I was an emotional person who could not heal from my pains.

Keep going to meetings.

At times I found I needed 23 or even 4 meetings so that I would not go back to gambling.

For me gambling is a very unhealthy self destructive habit.

Thank you

Dave L

Hi Alison remember one thing,you been born for  a reason and that reason was to go through difficult paths in life and learn from it.

I am on day 21 today with my recovery after 22 years on day to day gambling.

Lost over 800 000 thousand in total and I am about 200 grand in debt 

There's always someone out there to love and if there isn't love yourself and appreciate everyday that you wake up.

Lots of love xxx

Don't gamble ever again babe x

@wbr9jcpn3y that some serious loss ive lost alot over the years had on and off gambling relationship cost me everything my health not the best for the last decade i have only lost my savings and my last relapse has got me in debt, the debt is managble ive learnt alot of this relapse and ive 9 days clean health is more important i realised money can be replaced however we only have one life, ive taken this loss alot better, im enjoying the small things in life which money cant buy, ive also changed my diet as i was eating alot of c**P self care is most important which makes u stronger