Hi all.
The time has come for me to take my addiction seriously and to do something about it.
I have been playing online slots for around 18 months and have gone through periods where I am spending up to £1000 per day. Amazingly I am in very little debt and in all honesty even I am amazed by that. At one point I did owe in excess of £10,000 and somehow through continuing to gamble I got very lucky and managed to pay off all but £2000 of debt. I immediately cut up all of my credit cards and have therefore avoided building up any more debt.
However, with no credit cards available I have now found myself spending my wages and this is going to cause me big problems if I don't deal with it now.
I have previously gone around 80 days without gambling only to fall off the wagon after the death of a friend. I have already gambled today so tomorrow will be day 1. I have called Gamcare this afternoon which is something I have never done before. They are arranging me some councelling to help me to deal with my triggers and I really hope that I never play online slots ever again.
Wish me luck on my new journey!
Hi Brum
It was oline slots for me as well, thinking just £50, that moved onto £1000 just in case that win came. I aclled gamcare last Saturday and use the site and chatroom everyday since. Like you I'm waiting on my counselling.
I hope day one for you goes well and hopefully that will move onto day 80 like you did last time, it will be a week for me tomorrow.
I have never walked so much in my life as I have since I admitted to my family what I have donw, thinking of cross stitch next.
I wish you well on your journey!
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