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Great stuff ant great to see you have done 105 days and still no desire hope therapy helps you and have a great 2018

106 days GF - No desire to bet

Thanks Tommy. Happy New Year to you as well my friend. Make it a good one.

Back to counselling tomorrow, therapy starts next week. Bring it on.

Stay strong all

All the 1's ... 111 Days GF - No Desire To Bet

Still plodding along. Feelings are still a bit mixed but I remain positive. Counselling started again last week and my trauma therapy begins on Friday.

All day by day, but I feel as if I am finally getting somewhere.

Stay strong all

Congratulations AntAnt 111 days since you last gambled. Excellent progress and good that you are feeling positive.

Wishing you well...stephen

Belated congratulations on achieving 100 days gf.
Wishing you well with your therapy and here's to a better future.
All good wishes x

112 Days GF - No desire to bet

Thanks for the comments, they help a lot.

Mindfulness is a stonker. I really would recommend people give it a try. It levels me out and I can see clearly. It also relaxes me.Lots of vids on youtube...Go on... You may like it.

Stay strong all

Great to see your going strong ant keep up the good work I'll have a look on YouTube with what your recommending jft

120 Days GF - No desire to bet

On Friday I am moving out of the family home. Gambling it seems has finally claimed my marriage. I am really gutted about not living with my son, that is going to be so hard. Of course, I will still see him a lot, just gonna miss waking up to his noise and his ways. Trauma therapy starts today, not sure what will happen but I really am ready for it and I want to go through what I have to so I can try and deal with my mental Health issues. I am improving,I am seeing things clearer. I have no desire to gamble and I do not think about it at all. I have put things in place in case I ever get stressed enough to gamble (Remember, I gamble to escape reality) I also have started dealing with my mental health issues that lead me to escape by gambling. Long road ahead, but I have started moving along it.

Stay strong all

163 Days GF - No desire to bet.

I have not been on here much as I had a few issues to deal with., I have also spent the past 2 weeks in and out of the children's hospital where my son has been after an injury. He is going to be fine. My stress levels hit the top yet I dealt with it all. I put into practice the things I have learnt in the past 6 months and I got through things without turning to gambling to escape reality. To be honest, Gambling has never entered my head, and long may that continue.

Hope you are all good and doing well with your own gambling issues. We can all do this.

Stay strong

Ant

Ant, congrats on 163 days and for remaining so strong during such a difficult time, pleased to hear your son will be fine and well done with coping so well.

Wilsy

179 days GF - No desire to bet.

Plodding along. Keeping busy, going therapy, taking medication, staying positive. Little guy is doing great.

Life looks a lot better than it did 6 months ago. Things really can start to get better so keep that in mind.

Long way to go, but I am feeling good about things.

Hope you are all doing well.

Saty strong all

181 days GF - No desire to bet.

Little guy is doing amazing and I am so relieved.

Trauma therapy is as tough as anything I have ever done. Emotionally it destroys you before building you back up. It is pretty amazing though and is opening up a new world to me. I never realised just how much my mind had me trapped. I still have miles to go and they say it will take years to get me to my best place. But it is starting to open up and I can see things a little more clear.

Stay strong all.

Hiya ant great to hear your doing so well everyone I come on I hope to see your thread buzzing on over 180 days pal

188 days GF - No desire to bet.

Little guy is doing amzing. Fully discharged no, panic over.

I am doing good. remaining positive. Not getting on the internet much but checking in here when I can.

Hope you are OK Tommy.A few months since we had a gab, but keep going bud.

Stay strong All

197 Days GF - No desire to bet

Off to have more trauma therapy soon. It is tough but it also hits that spot that it needs to.Strange really as I now look forward to therapy. A far cry from the guy 7 months back who had no idea what was going to happen next. Getting that diagnosis at Christmas has changed me so much. The understanding of why I do certain things has had an incredible effect on me. My problems are mostly due to my mental health conditions, though I will never take my eye off the ball of the side of me that led me to gamble. I will never think that I am cured and gamble free. What I will do, and do, is thank those who have helped me get to where I am now and who will keep me going along a long path. My incredible psychotherapist who really has changed my life. The mindfulness videos and lessons that calmed and relaxed me (you do not always need those pills off the doc) GamCare, for listening to me that day that I rang for help, and for putting me on the path to the correct therapy that I needed. And you guys, for your stories that I read which inspired me, and for the help and support that many have given me. I cannot get on here as much as I used to as life is more busy for me now. But I do pop in, and I do still read people's experiences. I thank you all.

Stay strong

Ant