No willpower

Hi

It's great you've taken the step to come on here and post. I am new here too, and have been a CG for 3 years. I always spend my rent money and bill money the day I get payed, and I've wracked up debt by gambling too. I'm saying this because I don't want you to feel alone. Many others here have been through the same. Have you thought of a plan to help you stop gambling? Some counselling? A basic bank account? I'm finding at the moment that coming here and reading people's stories is really helping. You can succeed and be gamble free, and you can always turn here for advice or a chat. You are not alone 🙂

Welcome Jenny...and well done for coming here and facing your addiction. ...
I would recommend you call the helpline for a chat one to one...they'll give you some pointers on how to get things in place to help you.....read diaries on here....you'll pick up lots of information....and keep posting on here....it's a good place to "get it all out"...

Hi, I've just joined and am coming to terms with the debt I've racked up from using betting site and then using pay day loans to balance my account. Thought I'd come on here and talk to people with similar problems

You're not alone my friend.

I've joined today and am seeking support.

Depression, anxiety, guilt... An ongoing cycle I want and must break.

Regards,

Dan.

I'm positive we can all beat this...
Its awful and soul destroying but we must fight or what else is there. We are stronger than this.

Parents have bailed me out this time, but I've got to stop and haven't betted now since the 16th, so I can do it, feel better for speaking to someone

Hi

Everyone is welcome here on the forum.

There is no shame in admitting to a gambling addiction and its often linked with depression and loneliness.

Please give gamcare a ring Jennywren. We have all been there.

If you can build yourself up to tell someone close that would be a great help to you. you will learn about the addiction and how addicted you were without realising it.

Its a devastating addiction which plays with the mind. I realise that I just wasnt handling life or thinking straight. I feel a different person to who I was in 2015. Thats the real eye opener...I dont know who I was then and I was clearly out of control but then I had been my whole life when it came to gambling machines.

I thought I was semi ok but In counselling have been diagnosed with a clinical depression at that time. I thought I was ok on my own but things had ben playing on my mind making me depressed and anxious. I would often seek an arcade as a comfort blanket of escape after stressful news or a feeling I couldnt cope . I remember being in a shopping precinct and I didnt feel I could cope with shopping or seeing people so I went off to an arcade. It was an escape or fix that was destroying me.

So to all the new members please get involved and you will find out who you are and the reasons you actually gambled

Best wishes