Hi all,
I have been gambling since I turned 20 eight years ago and up until the beginning of this year I averaged £2,000 loss a year. Not a lot to some but a lot to me.
This year has been a good year, since 1st January have been recording my spending on gambling and I am £360 down.
I have been able to control it a lot more than previous years, I have had just one blip where I lost £80 in one week.
What I want to be able to do is quit for good, but how?
I do feel that gambling is my addiction, i dont smoke or do drugs and I am not too heavily into drinking but gambling is where I get a buzz.
I ordered a new bank card at the beginning of the year and my partner crossed out the security number so I couldnt use it for 2 months and that was good. After 2 months of no gambling I asked my partner if she could tell me my number as I felt good. She told me the number and I didnt gamble for a few weeks but eventually I gave in.
It would just be a lot easier if banks could just block gambling transactions, considering the amount of addicted gamblers in this country I dont know why this is not available.
Any advice?
Hi Mate,
My advice is, as strange as it may sound, to really embrace the fact that you have a gambling problem. As a compulsive gamblerI don't think you are as capable of controlling it as you may thing, and ultimately things will just get a whole lot worse.
Gamstop would be a good start. Get yourself excluded from everywhere online and that takes a big chunk of your ability to gamble away.
CG
Monzo and Starling are two banks that allow you to block all gambling transactions from going through.
As mentioned above Gamstop is the first and best step to take however.
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