So after gambling on and off for many years, recently I've been on a good streak, I've played it, I've walked away. On Friday after a win, I walked. The following day I basically put all that back in and the machine was playing dreadful. Normally I'd chase until I lost everything but this time I decided to call it a day after losing all the profit from the day before. A few times I've put 3 times that amount in. For the past 3 days I've had the urge to go try and win that loss back but I've resisted. I'm more of a problem gambler than an addict. I normally lose big and then not gamble at all for months until I've saved that money back and then end up in same cycle. This time I've decided not to chase that loss and I wouldn't even have that money anyway if I hadn't gambled Friday. I'm still up from previous sessions so trying to stay positive about that. Just annoyed at myself I guess
Morning. Take the money and lock yourself out for good today the system programme is working it’s way to clearing out your accounts disconnect immediately to save your funds and quality of life
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Hi there.
That was the exact reason for my heavy losses too, and that is the reason I can never gamble in a healthy way (if there is such way). I could win few hundreds one day, next week lose just £50, and get so annoyed about this that I would gamble away everything in a losing streak.
Moral of the story: We cannot gamble in a healthy way. I would suggest you put all possible restrictions and not gamble at all. Think about that in the long term YOU WILL ONLY LOSE. No matter how much you are up for a period, if you carry on, you will only lose.
Stay strong, keep yourself and mind busy with other stuff and live gamble free!
AV
If you have made it to this site then your highly likely a addict that needs recovery time away from gambling. Recovery is more than stopping gambling it's also self improvement of ones self that goes beyond gambling itself. You are probably unaware of the damage you may be creating on yourself and potentially others.
.or just go ahead and keep gambling your life away, the choice is yours alone
All the best
Dave101
@ticap6y5hs I'm feeling a bit better now. I'm angry at myself for losing that much and should have known when to stop. It's just the few days after when you're battling your own head not to go try win it back and accept the loss. I go through stages where after I lose, I won't gamble at all for months and then slowly get back into it and end up having a big loss. I'm going to have to cut it out completely because I can't lose even £10 and walk away. I don't even like gambling but don't know why I do it. Think it's because when I need money for something, I think I can win that money for whatever it is so I don't have to spend. Pretty stupid really
@san86 I can resonate with your answer. It is exactly like this, but let me give you a piece of advice, in the long term you are only going to be minus in your bank account. It is like a chart that goes downhill consistently in the long term (it has its ups but the end result is negative), so if you don't like gambling, and also lose money and play compulsively, there is only one way, to stay away for good. Stay strong!
AV
Hi
Letting go of money lost was important.
Getting my money back would not heal my pains.
For me understanding my unhealthy addictions and my unhealthy obsessions and sticking with recovery would help me heal my pains reduce my fears and reduce my frustrations.
Just for today I do not want or need to gamble.
Just for today I do not want or need to escape my feelings and emotions.
Just for today I want and need to exchange all of my unhealthy habits in to healthy habits.
By going to meetings I am becoming healthier and healthier.
The healthy healed people in the recovery program through their honest therapies helped me become a much healthier spirtual person.
I am a non religious person.
No one or thing could stop me gambling.
Only I could could stop me gambling.
Only I could could through my choice became amuch healthier person.
A person once said at a meeting he was glad he was a compulsive gambler.
Only by going in to the recovery program did he fully understand how unhealthy he was.
Only by me going and staying in to the recovery program did I fully understand how unhealthy I was.
I am far less of a risk taker.
I write down my needs my wants and my goals.
Love and peace to every one.
Dave L
AKA Dave of Beckenham
Hi
Gambling was not the problem I was the problem.
In time I got to understand m emotional triggers.
My pains I could not heal.
My fears I could not resolve or reduce.
My frustrations doe to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations.
My loneliness due to my fears of emotional intimacy.
My boredom due to the fact I felt very limited in my choices in life.
I needed to write down my needs my wants and my goals.
Pains caused up on me in my life caused fears in me that I did not understand.
Only once I abstained from unhealthy habits and exchanged them in to healthy habits would my life improve.
The gambling was just an escape in my fears.
The adrenaline rush was very much fear based.
The gambling was in effect self abuse and self destruction towards my self and my family.
Living in guilt and shame was living in the pains of my past.
Love and peace to every one.
Dave L
Dave of Beckenham
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