On the edge

How are you betting? If it's online, use Gamstop and download Gamban to your device too. 

Could you hand over control of finances to someone else? 

You need to take big action. Even though you might think you won't do it, you will. Do everything you can to stop the spiral. I know there were times I would promise myself £10, £10 only. Then before I even knew I'd done it, £1000s were lost as I chased my losses. 

Take every step you can to stop for good.

good luck x 

Hi

I had on several occasions given up all faith and hope in myself.

When I went to the addictions and obsessions were a way of me escaping in my fears from people life and situations I could not cope with emotionally.

The recovery program was going to help me help myself become healthier and productive.

The recovery program was not going to stop me gambling that had to be my own daily choice.

The recovery program was going to help me exchange unhealthy habits in to healthy habits.

By going to meetings I would learn from other people.

By going to meetings I would relate to other peoples therapies.

By attending the recovery program in time I would start to feel and heal.

In other peoples therapies I would learn how to cope with people life and situations in a much healthier way.

The recovery program helped me understand what my emotional triggers were.

The recovery program helped me learn how to interact with people rather than react in unhealthy ways.

My emotional triggers were my pains not healed, my fears not faced, my frustrations due to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations, my loneliness due to my fears of emotional intimacy, my feelings of boredom because I felt that life was boring, that I could succeed, that I avoided facing being accountable and I avoided facing challenges in my life.

My unhealthy reaction in my anger was due to my pains not healed, my fears not faced, my frustrations due to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations, I use to think that being angry was healthy, not today being angry is not healthy in any way for me today.

Being in the recovery program was going to help me see me as an equal to all people, if we are all equal and able to achieve new goals with my life, any one can.

Being in the recovery program was going to see and feel that if another person is able to achieve I can.

The recovery program was going to help me make slow steady baby steps, one day at a time.

In the recovery program I was going to learn that there was no such thing as failure in the recovery program we learn from our mistakes and our vulnerability.

In the recovery program I would understand that every action has consequences.

In the recovery program I would understand that every healthy action has healthy consequences.

In the recovery program I would understand that all the time I am procrastinating and putting things off I am cheating myself.

Please keep going to meetings, you will benefit from it in so many ways.

Love and peace to every one.

Dave L

AKA

Dave of Beckenham

Pull the money you have and get the accounts closed and bans in place or you will lose it all.

Speaking from harsh experience, when you win you do not stop, so stop before you lose.

You can do it

Hi Trisk,

Some really good advice here about self-exclusion and limiting your access to money to gamble.

If you would like to go over the suggestions above and also maybe look at counselling/treatment support options available please do get in touch either on the helpline on 0808 8020 133 or the netline available every day from 8.00am until midnight.

Wishing you all the best,

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