so, its time for me to try my hardest now to give up gambling i have seeked help before but i have put stops to things and put the barriers up..
it all started with friday work nights out to casinos for the 241 beers then the roulette tables took over... then i was hitting the tables most days of the week.. then finding out FOBTs excisted in bookies that was my dinner breaks sorted.... so for 4 years that was continuous. then i had a bad point when i was jobless and broke and seeked help in my finances.. i stoppped gambling for 7 months solid it was fantastic as i wasnt able to due to restrictions in cash and not having a debit card.. even overtime cash was just bering spent on trips abroad and other fun things... then a few friends started football betting and won bets, i thought thats not as harmful as roulette, how i was wrong 2 trips to the bookies later i was back on the Damned FOBTs. (they have been the downfall in my life, betting shops started appearing more and more on every corner due to these machines not making it very hard for the gambler to avoid) so for 10 years now its been roulette dragging me down. i place £5 on a football bet not wanting more or to chase it, put £5 in roulette and i am usually £100s down within an hour or so.... the amount of hours spent on the wheel (even thought i do have a job ) if i worked them hours instead playing the wheel i would be well off!!!
i tried again to stop for a month then friends started doing matched betting so i tried it made a profit and then the bookies just profited even more off me.. i tried the central self exclusion for bookies for 2 years and after getting a car found myself going further afield to find a bookie that i wasnt excluded from, so i had to out whit that gambling part of my brain and google all the outer areas and do a massive list of bookies...
after a blip going to a casino losing loads leaving and calling them back to self exclude and they wanted me to go in and do it... i had cooled down by the next day (my concious self had gone and gambling man was back) and lost another load so i self excluded from casinos (didnt even know it was that easy as once you do one casino they exclude you from them all in uk)
i think i have used every online site, i am quite cautious of the new sites you see at 1 am on the ITV ads such as a******e bet just to take your money..
it doesnt help that no one knows about my addiction my family, friends or missus all one big secret
so, here i am fed up of lying, losing money, and being more and more angry everytime i lose to the point i dunno if i would do something volitile
So gamstop has started and i am in, all bookies and casinos signed off... no more screaming man at the FOBTs and mobile phone i am more focused than ever before...
taking onboard what renton said to spud in trainspotting 2 "get addicted to something else" so i am and thats getting fit... and making more of an effort on here!!
i am now entering my 7th day...
lets do this
14 days and going strong. few small urges being out of my own town and out of my exclusion territory, but was with the missus and was able to block them out of my mind... back home now and in the saftey zone!! roll on 21 days!!
Well done on two weeks Jeff, good luck.
40 days and I am on form, been to Blackpool today, no temptation from the arcades (even though I don’t touch mate still of the machines in there anyway) seen bookies that I am not excluded from and everyone on that I seen I noticed there was a homeless man outside begging, and it just made me think that if I carried on that could be me. My only concern is that I have had a dream that I have in to temptation making me think that I’m not that safe so keeping my blocks in place in my own city will keep me in tact!! 40days and I don’t want a hangover !!!!!
inOk. So got to 56 days and crumbled due to not resetting my exclusions in shops, leaving me vulnerable and somewhat invincible as thought I could just have that one World Cup bet and ended up playing roulette as well I was wrong... could of been 10 weeks GF now but back on the wagon and 17 days free. Justify had a move holiday and it’s kept me out trouble , time to crack on again all exclusions in place!! No more hangovers....
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