Determined

200 Days GF - No desire to bet.

Well, I hit 200. No great cheer, just glad I have come this far.

Without you lot I would not have made it.

Here is hoping for another 100 days to arrive.

Stay strong all

Ant

Well done on 200 days Ant, enjoy the rest of the weekend!

All the best.

Hi Ant,

big congratulations from us Forum Admins as well, it sounds like you have put a lot effort into your recovery and overall mental helath and well-being and you are experiencing the benfits of all this hard work.

Keep going, keep working and keep posting.

All the very best,

Eva

Forum Admin

Congratulations Ant on your drive and ambition which has propelled you through 200 days of recovery.

Full respect also for the hard work you have put into understanding your mental health issues and developing coping mechanisms.

Thirdly I would like to thank you for giving me inspiration. I feel proud to be treading the same gamble free road as your good self. You have been brave, you have shown much courage and you have always kept your hopes alive.

I take my hat off to a true gamcare warrior and send you my best wishes..... stephen.

223 days GF - No desire to bet.

Thanks for the comments. I have not been on for 3 weeks as mad busy. Trauma therapy has been severe, exhausting, but it works wonders. I am changing and I can feel it. It is scary at times but good also. Have been sorting a few things out and in June I will be starting a new job.

Stay strong all.

Congrats on the new job AntAnt 🙂

And just want to echo the above words...You have faced your new chapter with courage & determination & are finally starting to reap the rewards of your hard work 🙂

Keep @ it & stay strong my friend - ODAAT

285 Days GF. No desire to bet.

Hi all.

First I must apologise for my lack of activity here for the last few months. So much has changed and I have hardly had a moment to myself. I started trauma therapy and it really has changed me. It is a very hard thing to go through but the results are amazing. As many of you will know, I have a number of mental health issues. Things are getting a lot better. I can cope and I understand things far better now. My anxiety levels have come right down. I still have bad days, but they are few and far between now instead of almost every day. I was trapped inside my head and my home. Almost refusing to go outside or be around people. I now work as a tour guide and I am out every day talking to groups of people and having a real old laugh with them. It feels great. I am also still writing. I wrote the book about my life living with my conditions. 4 publishers wanted to print the book but as I wanted to keep control of it I released it through Amazon myself. It has made a nice chunk for a mental health and stammering charity.

So, I am doing fine. Still step by step, but in such a different place than I was last year.

I hope you are all doing OK and making ground with your own issues.

Stay strong

Ant

286 Days GF - No desire to bet

Hope youa re all doing OK today

Stay strong all.

288 Days GF - No desire to bet

Enjoying the sun and th football.

Stay strong all

Ant

300 Days GF - No desire to bet

Stay strong all. Keep going.

Another milestone reached for me, but the recovery continues on and on.

Hiya Ant thanks for the post on my profile I have had a real up and down year stopping for over hundred days then relapse then doing another hundred and relapsing really struggled these last 2/3 weeks after doing another 90 days my best mate lost his partner and unborn twins and keeps trying kill himself which I'm struggling to deal with but it's not an excuse to bet I know I'm going try some different strategies and see how I go great to see you have done so well my friend