First full day

My first post and this is directly after speaking with an advisor on here. Also directly after loosing another few hundred today chasing losses.

My story started about a year ago when I was working but had lots of free time. In that time I became more and more bored. I have always gambled on horse, football and pub fruit machines but online slots was a new thing. I got into them, hit some great wins. Cashed out but then cancelled but finally cashed out some decent wins only to put it back in again another day/week.

I set deposit limits but then end up switching to a new site until I built up lots of sites.

So I can identify my issue myself. I started through boredom. I got addicted due to the buzz that slots create. I hit some massive wins (like 2000x) but still ended up trying it again at a later date and it going again.

The thing with slots is that I hit a bonus but when the bonus is low I play for another bonus but they may come and it be true, it's better but sometimes it's not. I can stay for a whole deposit on one slot even after hitting some good wins. It now seems no win is good enough.

So I have decided that I surely have a problem and I need to stop. What I have lost is lost and today start fresh.

I am not in debt but I have spent savings and wasted money that could have been hell of a lot more useful.

The advisor I spoke to today is the first person I admitted this to. My wife doesn't know the extent.

I will now choose to find something to fill this free time (I'm thinking some work training for future career progression) and focus on work and family.

I need to wipe this from my mind. I even had times when triggers were from basic household things like a Dragon Fruit reminding me of Fruit Warp

Anyway, thanks for reading. I hope this forum can help keep me occupied too. I hope I can also help others

Cheers