After years of gambling since I finished university I have now decided I need to deal with the problem. It has been ongoing for too long now. I have built up considerable debts to almost every company and every individual imaginable including close friends. Only 3 days after payday I am sitting here with just £100 left, despite being paid £1,700. the only positive is that my rent has been paid. Apart from that I am in trouble. I have started to close my betting accounts. Nobody knows about this but I am going to disclose it to a close friend in the next couple of days. I genuinely don;t know how I will get through the next few weeks until I next get paid. This is the worse it has ever been. I thought I had hit rock bottom previously but obviously not.
Hi Toddy 1,
Welcome to the Forum.
It may be worth contacting Gamcare re counselling as Deano suggests.
If your debts are huge and seem insurmountable at present, you may wish to look at putting reduced payments in place with your creditors. Even if it's £1 per month to each. You'll probably get the interest frozen as well. It will ruin your credit rating though (I guess it probably is already with your debt level). Important you take professional advice, maybe via National Debtline, it's free. Don't use one of these fee charging outfits.
You can beat the addiction with the right measures in place. I managed to kick it for over a year now, after years of betting and losing bigtime. I won some battles but not the war in the end.
I feel your danger time will be when you get hold of some more money and the urge to chase may kick in. That's obviously why strong preventative measures need to be put in place ASAP to prevent your further gambling.
I come to this site on a regular basis and take part in the 2016 challenge and it has been a great help to me.
Other people may post advice but at least this is a start.
Take Care Now.
Hi all. Thank you for your comments. This is the first time I have sought any help with my problem. I have known for a long time now it has been a problem but I have been happy to let it go on. I have for the last 12 months been betting on a daily basis, often up to 40 or 50 bets a day. Some of them have been small bets but others have been pretty big. I realised today when I had lost my entire wage that I needed to do something about it. I do worry the second I have more money (on next payday) I will go out and do the same again, but I need to resist that temptation.
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