CAN YOU RELATE TO THIS ???

Hi clean slate,

Yes I can totally relate to what you.say.

Please don't chase worse thing you can do the money's gone, accept it.

If you try to win back you'll just end up losing more. Even if do win back what it will do to your mind will make you carry on and you'll end up losing more than you originally lost.

Gambling is an evil merrygoround, fancy getting off?

Choose not giving another second to gambling, it's really not about the money I've learnt this in 2 years since started.

Choose friends

Choose family

Choose life

Hope you choose the right path my friend, wish you all the best like everyone on here

Fitzy

I also agree, its not about ghe money. We all know that winning a shed load of money would only make us chase that same high again.

If you won the lottery tonight and had no need to 'win money' do you honestly think your gambling urges would just stop. Your chasing a high and justifying your resoning under the premise that you need to make money. But why? What will winning money achieve?? Even when i did win money it just became extra gambling money to me. Ive got no ***tv, no car, no pc or laptop, no house of my own. Everything ive earned in the last 17 years has been wasted!! Plus im around 9 grand in debt. So ive taken the decision to step away from the madness. Hope you make the right choice before you lose even more.

Mark

hi clean slate

I am similar to yourself, have been gambling for years am 48 and still think I might win some back the next time I go and gamble, problem is I have been thinking like this for the last 10 years and guess what I have never even come close to winning it all back. the worse thing for me is I would be well of with no money worries if I didn't gamble so I don't understand my thinking at all. We gamble to try to win money yet if we all didn't gamble we would have money and no dept.

keep reminding yourself of these things and it should help

good luck mate

totally relate my friend, the key is we have to accept that no matter what we win it is never enough and to be honest the feeling of shame and embarrassment is much greater than the winning feeling.

A month or so ago I slid back into gambling after a couple of years CLEAN from it.

I owed about 2k on my credit card, lost 4k, so was owing 6k, went on a winning streak and won 5k, still wanted that 1k more, needless to say im now sat owing 9k feeling sick to the stomach about what I have done!

Don't do it, if not for yourself but for me, step away and make every second count.

so, joeblogs, you lost 7,000 more in the end chasing the 1,000 ???

it's crazy how out brains think and the pure addiction of thinking we need that money back or I will surely win the next time as iv lost so many before etc. I'm glad iv read all this again as it's made me stop a chase this evening. I can't add anymore than what all these people have said, you have to read this forum and you will realise which is the first step but the hard part is not gambling from then on. Take each day as it comes but it is so hard so don't worry if you relapse, just realise that as others have said we all chase that high and it's nothing to do with the money