Block ur computer

Hi everyone who posted. Well it's nearly 2 weeks since I stopped gambling online. I still think about the money that has gone. I know you all say forget about the lost money. But I want to remember it so I never do it again.

After withdrawal symptoms from all the online gambling I'm ok now sleeping a lot better doing more things with Toby. If I go shopping I go with someone so I don't walk in the bookies. Not started paying my loan off yet it starts at end of his month. So making sure I have enough in the bank in cover it while starting to enjoy life again.

Hope u all are still on the straight and narrow.

Hi Carl,

Two weeks is a good start, but as we both know, the challenge will come once you start getting money coming in to your account once again. Keep that optimism going, and hope you can start to enjoy life again. Gambling strips so many things away, and the ability to enjoy life is one of those things that just gets better the more you get back.

Well done,

Ryan

i was doing really well. and then i got my laptop back arrrrrrhhhh

lost 3.5k have no money at all

god knows how I'm gonna pay bills

this life is S**t

well i got my sister to have the password for my laptop and I've got massive urge to gamble but my laptop is now blocked from all sites and I'm so happy she is helping me. not gambled since monday. This is my last chance to recover as i have debts but they are manageable now. any more losses I'm done for.

if your reading this for the first time don't gamble I've lost 40k this year all my saving and in debt 16k. please don't do it. slow rd to being debt free hopefully be at 0 in febmarch 2016. please cross your fingers for me. main thing is no internet gambling as thats where you lose the most money.

have a good day all.

Hi Carlsimon

Feels awful that stomach wrenching sickening pit of the gut pain. HOLD on to that and stay focused. Well done on 5 days and that means you are strong enough to do this one day at a time. Ty for your post and read my last few entries to encourage you to abstain.

Take care and best wishes

Cheryl xxx

Simon

Fella well done on finding the resolve to keep fighting,addiction along the way will win a few battles but the war is the bigger picture.

That you will win by using all the help on offer to you and your want to stop the destruction growing greater than your want to lay that next punt.

Keep making the right choice

Abstain and maintain

Duncs stepping forward never back

Hi thanks for kind messages.

We'll I have sold my laptop. One to get money for bills and two stop me gambling. I hope it works. I'm so stressed at the min about all of this but as the months go on I will recover. Walked past the bookies yesterday had a big urge to go in but I didn't. I don't wanna let myself down. Still can't believe how much I've lost since July.

Stressed but coping carlsimon.

Well in the end I cut off the internet in my house. I was a bit bored and not used to not having it but it has stopped gambling in its tracks.

if I want to go on the internet I go round to my dads. 20k in debt but paying it back slowly. Still have my nice car and House and still got my heath.

Keep up the fight all.

carl

20k in debt chaseing losses. Just noticed in here I joined 1st may 2009. Wished I'd stopped then. Now I have a few yrs of c**P life then I will be free of debt.

Bloody casino rang me at work today trying to get more money out of me lol. I can't play online any more as cut phone line off. And data on phone is not much. Just need to stay away from bookies .

Hi Carl,

Welcome back.

Sending you loads of strength and determination, to keep-abstaining and maintaining on this difficult journey of recovery.

Best wishes

Suzanne xx

Thanks to both the last posts. I have decided to keep this car. As if i sold it it would be the easy way out of this mess. The little i pay off every month will remind me of the mistakes i have made. There is no easy way around this i have been trying to stop for years since 2009. No internet for the last 5 months has been the best thing i have done. just trying to say away from bookies now. my card is at work so if i need money i can draw some out before the end of work and just leave it there.

It is gonna be a long year i owe 5300 0n credit card that i hae to pay off in 10 months or it will go mega interest. but if i just stay in at weekend i can do it. also have 12500 on a loan which has a few years to go.

Done everyting i possibly can to stop , self exclude, k9 which is on this laptop. its all in the mind and im gonna try so hard.

Best wishes to you all in this hell.

carl.

Hi well ive done a week of no betting. my cash card is at work so only have a few pounds on me which is great, done 7 days like this which has been ok. i'm really afraid to go out near towns as any money mite go in the bookies. But not having any cards on me this is not possible.

My only worry is when im on holiday i will need my card. but not off for a month so i will sick to my new plan. until all debt repaid. (around sept 2016) if i have not much of a life till then.

i tell you wat though im sleeping so much better and eating better. less fatty more fresh and fruit too. Lost weight im mite end up with a six pack. anyway.

Back to my plan. at the moment its working well . credit cards at my dads cash card at work. no internet at home. and don't go near town centres. just out of town shopping centres. thats the plan for this year. sounds mad but ok to me.

and i still have my dog,, hes the coolest thing around and takes up a lot of my free time.

carl