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Guru Chartom I applaud your excellent progress.

Great to share this recovery road with your good self and other good men and women who are striving to be free from this awful addiction which has caused us all so much misery, heartache and confusion.

Your gamble free adventure is an inspiration to me and demonstrates that we can overcome the compulsion to gamble. Stay strong my friend, remain focussed and keep going forward...stephen

iCan’t believe it back to my old tricks, bookies not batting an eyelid that I have n exclusion, no one gives a s**t, had enough my mind has no control over its self gambling amongst other things... even this site had only let me back in after a massive downfall which is a sham £2 spins what happened that mith that has just blown away I was totally geared up for kicking it and that would of helped but 6 months down the line the bookies still winning and I am getting sagged up the a*s cause all staff can’t even notice when people are in distress... do I need to smash the machines just to get noticed??? Total shambles that and my life

I should be on the road to recovery.... nope can’t even see a counsellor through here neither as I need o have a years break what help is that.... back to day one sorry for being so negative but i’m Furious with myself and the entire system that just fails me... people behind the counters just laugh they ain’t concerned it’s their wages which is absolutely wrong.. if that was me I would try and approach them and distract them.. never felt this low before

Hi Jeff, yep I recently went to a bet fred and gambled when I was excluded approx three hundred down from two visits, kept going back to cash machine until I couldn't get anymore, absolute disgrace. We just have to say f**k you ******* I'm not going to entertain another thought and just get on with my life. They may already have our money but tghey don't have our lives so lets make sure we have good lifes from now on and laugh at them when we walk past their doors. Lets do this. No doubt you've got to go thru the getting back on track tjill pay day monthly cycle, sometimes it takes three months til ur back on ur feet. But lets for one second take a step back and think to ourselves what money is its created by man and we don't actually need it. Everyone should live on rations in my belief society would be soo much better without it. Lets nort think about trying to get money and that's what we aspire to do in life. A wise man once said only when the last buffalo is killed and the last tree is chopped down will man realise u cant eat money. Stay focused Jeff , with u and everyone else and the gamcare untill the end. Every single day we don't gamble is a success make to mtomo the first of many more successes.

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Cheers Adam, kinda calmer now will be having a word with central exclusion agency tomorrow and letting them know, I think I need to go t total with everything I tend To think one thing won’t halm such as a drink or a cig or a gamble..’y temptation levels are too high and can’t say no.. I don’t even have a problem with anything other than seeing ***** or *****...the fact ***** it building a massive block of apartments in Manchester built on our funds winds me up when I pass, yet I’ll go straight to his shop to help put another brick in there? It’s like is an outside of me telling me what I know yet the inner demon in me just bypasses me and leave me on the curb... how do you beat that inner demon that listens to ****** or******? Just hurt inside feel like a need to sleep for week to get over it!? But again thanks Adam

No probs mate, I think we have to keep this mixer thread alive its helped soo many already, if we have a bad day write ion here and others can offer support, then if anyone is coming up to a guru milestone Sa and we can all say congratulations. We owe it to mixer to keep it alive. He has as for probably everyone else been there for me thru some really difficult times.

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Spoke to the central exclusion line today and advised them that was able to go in to my chosen shops and I wasn’t spotted, they are going to raise this, maybe put the shops in to shape and be more vigilant and caring.. part my fault but maybe this should make the flaws more visible!! Hurry up with this £2 spin if it was £500 being put in place it would be in place within the hour!! Anyway 1 day clean many more to go need to be a guru, this is going to be a long journey!!

Nice workjeff, yep I should do the same, these bookies need to be more responsible if that's possible for a bookie to be. Onwards on this gamble free road we go I'm over fifty days and very proud.

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Welcome zcjxb, to the challenge

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Can I join the Guru challenge? I’m 159 GF but feeling a bit vulnerable so i’m Hoping with all your support I can continue my GF life.

So having being unable to log into here for a while I have just noticed going back mixer has been absent I hope he is ok..

Wishing all the Guru Challengers peace, contentment and happy days.

We are all battling to be free from a compulsion to gamble.

We can choose to be gamble free and try to realise our full potential or we can live in servitude to the monstrous tyrant we know as gambling addiction.

We can choose to be gamble free or we can say goodbye to all our dreams and aspirations.

We have the power to say no....stephen

I will say no n o no no no I say no no no no wise words Stephen. Just off to the gym gotta work off the chocolate I ate yesterday.

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Just a few days off the Guru I’m not f*****g this up now. Like Stephen says gambling no no no ways

Hasta la vista fellow challengers