Gambling Harm

 Hi,You can't ditch gambling thoughts completely our brains have a memory.But what you can do is arrest the gambling and stop , you will always have a gambling compulsion its just you have to manage it. Gamcare do therapy you can have blocks to literally shut the gambling down completely.Gamcare therapy chat etc phone lines open 24 /7 the help is there grab it with both hands. you also have Gamban Gamstop moses, (multi operator self exclusion scheme). best wishes

Posted by: @unluckychap

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It’s scary to see the impact of gambling since I realised I had an issue 5 years ago. I have tried numerous times to stop without success.

Where I have gambled for over a decade, it’s constantly on my head e.g. I notice gambling adds, familiar sounds (roulette ball), sound of slot reels which is so difficult to switch off. 

What I think about now is ‘Where to start?’. No doubt stopping gambling is the answer but how do we delete those gambling thoughts? Which debt do I tackle first? 

I tend to stop gambling for a short period (few weeks or months), think I’m on the road to recovery and then I relapse which makes the whole journey seem impossible. I think about my gambling history and how it’s a vicious cycle. 

Any tips from those who’ve felt similar to me would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks for reading. 

 

 

 

 

Hi

I'm not going to profess to know anything at all about giving up as it's only three days. My opinion and what I have decided to do is to go full hog and do everything fully. So in terms of tackling debts it might be an idea to talk to Stepchange and find a solution