New today ..

Welcome j
Seems your already clued up on what you need to do next so I'll just give you a welcome and look forward to sharing your journey
Deano

Hi J,

This is day 1 for me too and the first day is nearly over ha. Have you also completed the form for the counselling? I did that today and I have positive feedback about it, so I'm hopefully I can get my life back to normal. Stay strong and I look forward to hearing how you are doing.

Deano8008 wrote: Welcome j Seems your already clued up on what you need to do next so I'll just give you a welcome and look forward to sharing your journey Deano

Cheers mate, So what do people tend to do just update daily/weekly on how things are going? It was become a real problem for me & after going for a walk and some thinking time, turning me into a person and style of life i really dont want.

Linds wrote:

Hi J,

This is day 1 for me too and the first day is nearly over ha. Have you also completed the form for the counselling? I did that today and I have positive feedback about it, so I'm hopefully I can get my life back to normal. Stay strong and I look forward to hearing how you are doing.

Cheers for the reply. My issue was just being bored, having easy access to alot of disposable income & not being able to control it. What was yours?

Hi jamie and welcome to the forum , I just picked up on your thread and with regards to the forum just use it as you wish really .

If you want to update daily , weekly , once a month or every 5 mins , it's really your choice , if you want you could start a diary on the recoveries page and do much as your doing now , you just tend to get more of a response to posts in the diarys section , theres also a day counter available that keeps track of your gamble free days and allows you to watch them build up .

Hope this helps but if you need any other advice just ask anyone .

Wishing you well my friend

Regards Alan .

JamieR5947 wrote:

[quote=Linds]

Hi J,

This is day 1 for me too and the first day is nearly over ha. Have you also completed the form for the counselling? I did that today and I have positive feedback about it, so I'm hopefully I can get my life back to normal. Stay strong and I look forward to hearing how you are doing.

Cheers for the reply. My issue was just being bored, having easy access to alot of disposable income & not being able to control it. What was yours?

Hi,

Mine was similar it was just boredom and just being able to switch my laptop on at the time, made me go into this little world that no body new about. I did enjoy it at first but now I don't. But then it just became the chasing game. I borrowed to try and win the money back, but it is just a vicious circle. Like you I just want to have my normal life back and be happy, I'm trying to work out how to pay everyone back that I borrowed from and that is when I turn to the slots to try and get a win, so I can pay my debt and then I will be happy, but as a CG I don't stop until the balance says £0. Like the advice I have been given I need to break the triangle. I need to focus on what I can afford to pay each month and pay, then leave myself enough to live on, I suppose that way I won't have the money to spend. Well this is the start of day 2 for us, which is a nice feeling.

good luck both. I posted on here as "day one" a few months ago but had a huge blip. I'm now 7 days gambling-free. I think logging on regularly and updating is important. I didn't really update my progress the first time around, or say when I had gone backwards with my progress, but now I think of it as a weight watchers weigh-in but with money instead of fat :). we can do it guys X Suz X