Hi everyone, I’ve struggled with a gambling problem for quite a few years and to be honest with help and encouragement from my wife, I stayed well away from gambling until tonight by doing something silly by signing up to an account and gambling and if I’m honest I didn’t even enjoy doing it, straight after I’ve joined gamcare and uploaded my driving license and banned all for the maximum of five years. This is my 1st step, secondly I’m going to be honest with my wife and explain what I did as I don’t want to lie my way out and cover it by the ways many of us know how to. for me the only reason I can even think of doing what I’ve done is due to lost and bad health of some family members and how I’m feeling inside and most of us here know when we feel bad we gamble and forget about everything else as when your watching the races or playing the machines your mind is completely thoughtless, which is an amazing feeling until after the money is gone, then we have that sinking feeling of what have I just done, how am I going to fix this, and while we have all this going on in our heads we pretend to our closed, that we don’t have any worries and all is well in the world, and the reality is…. We are screaming for help. I hope some of you can relate to how gambling has and does make me feel, for a long time I felt trapped and when I wasn’t gambling for me everything in life would be better. And by coming here looking for support and to try and support others is another step I,m taking to hopefully and finally lose my addiction to gambling.
Hi im new here myself. I am struggling with online slots. I have been bed for 3 years now. I think my mum passing really affected me and going on the slots took my mind off of everything. But now I’m getting to the stage where I’m borrowing and lying just to play. I hate keeping things from my husband but the thoughts to play in my head over power me all the time. So I get your struggles completely
I have had the same problem with online slots I’ve banned all games and blocked bank then took it off and started again I can not stop I just got paid and spent all of it in one day
im lying to borrow money as well
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