Frst star.

Good job ricky. I am building up the courage to block all the gambling sites. I thought I had the strength to just avoid them, but alas my £37K of gambling losses for the last two years just hit £40k. Would be more but I drained my account. 

Hello ISNL

A recovery is about the reality checks to detox your life. I trust that you can tell someone in your family today because the door is wide open for you to gamble.

They are not offering you an income scheme.....gambling is not there to be a planned income scheme.....tipsters??.......tipsters??.....what can I say about them that you dont really know....a free ride to riches in this life....get real!

You use the word luck in your handle. The gambling dens have built empires by calculation....not luck...they are not risking their housekeeping money and its not even a fair challenge......you were never going to stick it to the man...they call it entertainment but know how addictive gambling is

You've experienced what happened. You don't set the odds you don't know the motivation and funding for tipsters other than they promote the whole gambling scam sharabang

There are people who earn a steady income and its not the mug punters. What do you think they are there for. The bosses make millions and the workers get a steady salary at the expense of people like you

It's a mugs game and a vice. Worse still they pushed a highly addictive product and activity from the very first time you tried it........A drug and that's what you need to understand

You need to sit down with non gamblers....start talking about what's in your head and keep talking. You have an addiction.....a dangerous one and I understand its power to confuse and manipulate minds

You have to claim the responsiblity even though something was pushed upon you. You will need to detox your gadgets from their videos and emails.....Best you don't go anywhere near certain social media while you heal enough to get stronger against it

You have time to learn. Buy some books like jackpot by Rob Davies.......he will tell you about the suicides and people making billions from all this misery

When you are properly blocked you will do the cold turkey you need to do. You need to be proactive in all areas of your life so you don't have time to twiddle your thumbs in boredom  Your money should be with your mum or sister for example and you should be on an allowance.....you won't be blowing money by gambling and you will actually have money for a shirt and a pleasant evening out in a gamble free life

You can stop the blowouts debt and despair when  you realise what needs to be done to counter the power of this addiction

You can never be complacent again for the rest of your life but that will sound positive and not scary after a while of healing

Best wishes to get it together for a gamble free life

Hi

For me the addictions and obsessions were just the symptoms that I was emotonally vulnerable.

Being in the recovery program and or on forum 5 years is the important thing you ahve not given up on your self.

I went 11 months and two weeks gamble free and then I gambled,

My emotional trigger was my fears of facing the people in the meeting because I had fears of talking in front of people.

Later in my recovery I did talks at a recovery for over two years.

I over came my fears of public talking.

The recovery program is not about blame or beating our self up.

The recovery program is about healing our pains facing our fears and finding healthier choices in our life.

It took me over twenty years to get the light bulb moment and understand that true recovery was about healthy living and healing the hurt inner child in me..

I needed tos tay clear of my emotional triggers, to not mix with people consumed by the addictions.

When a person is feeling vulnerable use the meeting telephone list.

I needed to get focused on healthy habits.

I needed to get motivated in filling my needs, filling my wants and filling my new found goals.

Clean time is not lost, the only time we lose is the last few days of our gambling days.

Learn to help your self, our joint recovery is a life saver to so many people.

Even when we gamble and share we help some one else.

In recovery we learn to respect our self.

In recovery we learn to love our self.

In recovery we learn to kind caring and more gentle of our self.

Love and peace to every one

Dave L

AKA Dave of Beckenham UK

14th July! It's in my diary sir! I'll be looking out for a message on that day ✌️