Five months gamble free

A huge well done.

It seems you've come an awful long way in the last five months and, not only have your habits changed dramatically for the better, it seems you have gained a great deal of insight to allow you to notice your triggers, assess them and act on them for good.

Well done - keep it up, and keep posting updates.

Good on you. Change the 5 month into 5 years. It’s worth the better feelings. Not the stress of it all. The anxiety. The depression. Its mental torture. But we’ll done and keep at it 

Thank you. 

Thank you. 

Hi Moving On

What happens is the reality centres  in your brain gain strength to a level where why would you do it? The feelings do fade but its more complex to explain than that

I can conjure up that drug flutter feeling now but I've made it meaningless to me in terms of action.  If anything it interests me now to learn more about it and build further strength.

I know the feeling is false and laughingly I say to my body why are you dong that.... its nonsense. I am crystal clear that gambling is like putting my hand into molten metal...I fear it, I dont do it and I dont want to do it.....It gets better over time and I haven't felt any real urges for years now.

Perhaps urges are the wrong word...it gets into our bones so both mind and body crave it in the same way that a smoker or alcoholic finds it hard to stop

Your strength is realising that you can never be complacent again. Both fear and respect this addiction but the aim is a calmness to carry on with your life having found better things to do.

The truth Moving On is that you are better than gambling and your life will be improving without it. Like your handle you will move on with calmness and serenity.

The feelings are just your body playing tricks on you...its a false signal because you know the result of risking your money on those odds...its a mugs game and a waste of your precious time

Like many medical experts, I feel I have proved it acts like a substance addiction. That is the main thing most people dont understand about gambling. They sold us a drug which soon sets up neuron paths and learned behaviour to get the chemical fix. I should know the feeling...I felt it for forty years and I reckon I was hooked within minutes never mind days or months

I want no more of it...it was simply killing my mental health and finances. The only way was down to who knows what at the end of the line It was the vice I was vulnerable to, its extremely dangerous and I was never protected from it.

At one point I was living in a condemned tower block with absolutely no furniture , eating horrible 35p mayonaise and stale bread for weeks at a time...They dont show you that on the gambling adverts do they?

Thats the sinister part of all of this. It should carry a government health warning at the very least. Its a monumental scandal and it should be illegal.... I want to make you think reality

Bestwishes from everyone on the forum

Posted by: Joydivider

Hi Moving On

What happens is the reality centres  in your brain gain strength to a level where why would you do it? The feelings do fade but its more complex to explain than that

I can conjure up that drug flutter feeling now but I've made it meaningless to me in terms of action.  If anything it interests me now to learn more about it and build further strength.

I know the feeling is false and laughingly I say to my body why are you dong that.... its nonsense. I am crystal clear that gambling is like putting my hand into molten metal...I fear it, I dont do it and I dont want to do it.....It gets better over time and I haven't felt any real urges for years now.

Perhaps urges are the wrong word...it gets into our bones so both mind and body crave it in the same way that a smoker or alcoholic finds it hard to stop

Your strength is realising that you can never be complacent again. Both fear and respect this addiction but the aim is a calmness to carry on with your life having found better things to do.

The truth Moving On is that you are better than gambling and your life will be improving without it. Like your handle you will move on with calmness and serenity.

The feelings are just your body playing tricks on you...its a false signal because you know the result of risking your money on those odds...its a mugs game and a waste of your precious time

Like many medical experts, I feel I have proved it acts like a substance addiction. That is the main thing most people dont understand about gambling. They sold us a drug which soon sets up neuron paths and learned behaviour to get the chemical fix. I should know the feeling...I felt it for forty years and I reckon I was hooked within minutes never mind days or months

I want no more of it...it was simply killing my mental health and finances. The only way was down to who knows what at the end of the line It was the vice I was vulnerable to, its extremely dangerous and I was never protected from it.

At one point I was living in a condemned tower block with absolutely no furniture , eating horrible 35p mayonaise and stale bread for weeks at a time...They dont show you that on the gambling adverts do they?

Thats the sinister part of all of this. It should carry a government health warning at the very least. Its a monumental scandal and it should be illegal.... I want to make you think reality

Bestwishes from everyone on the forum

Great advise and a good way to look at it, I will keep this in mind for when I feel that way again. Thank you for your response it's very much appreciated.