Rock bottom

Welcome to Gamcare you are in the right place stick to this forum u will get grear advice from people its what helped me in 20 days time i will be close to hitting my first 1000 days thanx to the support offered and the forums it changed my life and it will change yours too im not the best at giving advice however u will see me on this forum and 8pm chatrooms it changed my life and it can change yours too👍

Hi Dan

I absolutely love your subject line. Over a 44 year career of misery in gambling, every time I hit a rock bottom, Stuart got the old sledge hammer out and knocked through to yet another one. 

The first thing to try and fix is the access to gamble to make things easy. You may already have this but for me I put the blocks in place whether I used these forms or not

Gamstop for all online operators

Gamban to block all gambling websites on all my devices

Self excluded with all my accounts just to make sure

Moses for bookmakers

Sense for casinos

There are others for arcades and bingo

I blocked my bank card from gambling

Reduced my limits and now use Monzo which charges withdrawals and has not branches

Final thing on this side was accountability. My amazing partner has access to my email and banking apps and can check whenever she wants and the same with my mum. Gives me and them peace of mind. I get receipts for everything I buy and put them in a pot at home. 

After that I started to retrain my mind so I didn't want to gamble. All of the things that have worked for me are in the forum in the new section called do you want to give up gambling. All I would say it try them and see what works.