I've been a problem gambler for around 10 years and have stopped but started again lots of times. I have just done a week but tonight gambled and lost nearly a months wages on day 8. Feeling is so sickening but also so familiar. When I'm lying in bed at night is so clear that I should stop I think of ways to help self like not taking bank card out but during day all goes out window feels like I'm on auto pilot going from bank to bookies back to bank back to bookies...As I said been trying to stop for ages but really really really mean it now. Any one know how many times most people fail before they finally succeed??
You aren’t most people so it’s really rather irrelevant, kinda like the sort of question addiction would ask really...’We’ say one & you beat yourself up about how stupid you are not being able to stop & ‘we’ say 5 billion (because that’s what it may feel like it’s been) & you take it as a green light to carry on gambling.
I’ve walked in your shoes...Spent hours every evening working out, to the penny, how long until I’m ‘straight’ then hitting it hard the next day, rinsing everything I can get my hands on which for me wasn’t just bank to bookies (ad infinitum), it was cash back in supermarkets because of withdrawal limits. I can’t give you a number but I can say with absolute certainty, it went on until I got help: drew a line under my losses & accepted that gambling had me beat.
You can’t rely on the thing that dragged you into this cycle to get you out...Get your blocks in place (MOSES is a start 0800 294 2060 https://self-exclusion.co.uk/ ...It’s the self exclusion tel for bookies) & get some help to fix your broken mind. The cycle stops when you stop it - ODAAT
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