Day 1...need to stop & sort my life out!!

It's such a common story, online slots are so so addictive, you know what they can do the 1000x win, but it's so rare the odds of those wins are less than 1%, when you know how they work, the random number generator, someone on YouTube once explained that as 10 dice and the chances of hitting the jackpot are rolling them and every dice landing on the same number, and you could start now and keep rolling those dice for the rest of your life nonstop and you could die having never rolled those dice all the same number. So you could start playing your favourite slot and never ever hit the jackpot in years and that is playing the game non stop, Look behind the graphics and you see an unbeatable machine.

Hi, thank you for sharing your story. I thought I was the only person out there that had an uncontrollable problem, but reading your post, it sounds exactly the same as me. I only ever gamble on online slots, but it’s so easy to spend hundreds in one hit! I have had almost every site available, I open them, deposit, usually lose, then self exclude. The next day I look online again and find new sites, I create new e mail addresses, slightly alter my details so I can slip through the net and open a new account, as I am typing this it actually sounds crazy!

I save £50 a month for Xmas club, it took me all year to save £500 and I spent it all on gambling in about a week, it took me a year to save that!! It’s crazy, BUT, you have to let those past experiences go. You can’t think I could have had this or done that with it. You just have to stop. Which is not that easy, I know. I tried gamban, it’s a free app that allows you to block gambling sites. But you can just delete the app so it’s not really a deterrent for me, but it gives thinking time I suppose. I had an idea, I thought, what if you could get the gamban app and put it in a folder on your phone, then ask my mum or partner to put a password on that folder that I wouldn’t know so I couldn’t delete the app, a good idea I think but there is no facility to do this, what do you think of that? I should contact Apple with that idea!

I often make myself feel bad, anxious, sick, tiered and nervous because I’ve gambled too much. But I am sick of it. I am determined to stop, it’s been 3 days now, but you have to start somewhere. I find that turning my phone off and putting it in another room on charge for a few hours really helps. I know it sounds boring but I got an app called recolour, for when I’m not turning my phone off, it’s just st a colouring in app, but it keeps you focussed for twenty or so minutes while the gambling urges pass, it’s a free app, but I found because I have to concentrate on it, it’s a good tool, before you know it half an hour has passed! You said you had kids, not sure what age they are but you could do something like that together? I also got a diary, and I am crossing each day that I don’t gamble, off the calendar, it helps to look at it and see the days build up.

Hopefully this might help you, your post has certainly helped spurr me on. Good luck and keep me posted.