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Hi Newbie! I am new to the site as well....this is my 4th day gamble free. You do exactly the same as I do - gamble the slots, win, bank, reverse withdrawL!! I have list thousands and thousands of pounds. Unbelievable! Husband found out 5 years ago and paid off my debts to the tune of 90k! Thinks I gave up but I didn't. I have been so devious!! Am hoping this is going to work.....if it doesn't then can't blame him if he puts me out! Got to say this site is brilliant PLEASE DONT GAM LE.... within a few days (even tho I have nothing in the bank and a load if debt) I can sleep without 3am sweats and panic and tears!! Try it. You'll see. Keep posting to me and we'll see how we get on? GOOD LUCK TO US BOTH!! X Helen.

you could try installing gamblock which blocks all the gambling websites (or something similar - I am sure lots of forum members can recommend something) on your computer. I personally use plugins on firefox/chrome to block news websites because I spent to much time reading them lol.

Hi all - having read some of the posts it saddens me that there are so many people out there like me - I think I can add little to the tragic stories out there - I am 45 started on fruit machines when I was about 16 if I remember rightly my first 10p won the jackpot of 3 quid in tokens and have wasted tens of thousands since - I can't even imagine how much it is must be well over 150k if not worse over the years. I now play the 500 quid slots in the bookies and hate myself every time - I have no idea how many absolute lows I've had the self loathing and the hollow promises I have made to myself and then lo and behold I go in saying right only 50 quid this time and then 500 quid later!!! It also seems that I really can't win as I play the slot games not the roulette and if I win from one game I'm determined to win from the next one and take it like a personal vendetta that it is not paying out - I would put myself as a rational person with a decent job and yet this madness just continues. I am married and my wife knows I have gambled in the past and probably suspects I still do but she has no idea to what extent - how can any sane person understand chucking money in a machine you know will beat you. So currently in about 8k of debt my wife deals with the cash and I get an allowance every week but have a credit card she doesn't know about - I got it when I had gambled all my money had no access to any so applied and got one thinking I would only use it for petrol etc - you can guess what happened from there. Anyway I'm sorry to have rambled on am on such a low and self loathing that something really needs to be done - have said this in the past but I really can't continue the way things are - so the plan is to get a bunch of photos done and self exclude from bookies near my home and where I work - it seems to have varied results get rid of my credit card - sitting cut up in from of me and find a GA meeting - if anyone has any suggestions for when the real urge comes I would be grateful.

Thanks for listening

G

I'm really trying to commit to staying off the online slot sites. It's took a long time to realise my chances of winning and holding onto those winnings are slim. Plus those winnings are a drop in the ocean of losses so what's the point? I haven't looked at any sites since Friday but I think about it all the time.

Totally agree with GD1234, I consider myself a rational, decent human being with a decent job - so what empty hole psychologically or spiritually am I trying to fill?

I think it's better for me to concentrate on that and take each day as it comes.

I've had so much experience of different sites, responsible gaming statements and researching gambling blogs/forums that eventually I'd like to put it to some positive use. I know there are 1000's of people in the same hole & there is a lot of encouragement /temptation out there.

I will keep up to date on this forum whenever I'm thinking too much about it and try and offer some support to others. I know it's hard to explain to someone who doesn't gamble when you don't really understand your own compulsion.

Best of luck N

I think most responsible, rational people have one at least thing that they can't control even though they know doing it is wrong - ours happens to be gambling.