Life Begins After Gambling

Hello mate

I've heard that K9 internet blocker is good and in sure it's free, just google "k9 internet" and it should come up. I'm 19 and also beginning my new life without gambling before it goes too far. I will be starting a diary as well this week so I'll make sure to keep up with yours also.

All the best

Hello Jim,

Thanks for the info, I have installed the K9 blocker so hopefully its a fail safe which I am sure I might need.

My biggest problem is with roulette, how about you. I recently won around 1,300 but it was never enough until it all went. This was online. I know that if I was in the actual bookies I would have walked for sure. Online gambling is a killer for me it just does not feel like real life. It is extremely dangerous.

Whats your story?

Cheers,

Sam.

Sam

Welcome to the forum a place where you will find a wealth of help,support and some great advice here to help you find your way on your own journey to living a gamble free life,one without the destruction gambling holds at present.

My advice get those debts into an order where you can pay them back,learn from your mistakes and don't end up like me,I took twenty plus years of progressively higher stakes to come to the understanding that my own compulsion meant I would never win because I simply could never stop.

Give yourself a pat on the back for addressing your issues,be proud of the fact you are doing something about them.

Take all the help you can get,it will gift your own resolve no end in the quest to stop the misery.

My advice the same that was gifted me on my first days recovery

There is a triangle

Time-money-location

Take one away at all times and that next bet becomes impossible,gifting you the chance to enjoy your hard earned rather than turning it into the 'gambling tokens' to feed your compulsion.

Be honest with folk about your own shortcomings don't be afraid to tell folk,addiction loves us to keep it a dirty little secret,it feeds off it.

For us we actually win by not placing that next punt,because we all know the result

Eventual loss.

Well done again for finding the courage to help yourself.

Most of all enjoy it.

I look forward to reading your progress.

Tailor your recovery to suit you.

One day at a time

Abstain and Maintain

Duncs stepping forward never back

Never been into roulette myself mate, all started with football betting. Going to the cafe on a Saturday morning and then into the bookies with my mates started out as a really enjoyable experience. Hit beginners luck and it seemed every accumulator I did won, so I ended up thinking I was either very lucky or I knew football so well that I could even predict the upsets. Anyway both turned out to be incorrect and was purely beginners luck, then turned onto online slots which I couldn't stop winning at first. Sometimes turning 20 quid into 400. Basically at the end of my slots playing, twice I got my bankroll up to over a 1000. Both times I lost it all because he casinos I was playing at room ages to process the withdrawal. But if I had the self discipline then I would have not gambled the money back, but anyway lessons learned.

Duncan has given you some brilliant advice and seems like a top bloke, I think we should both pay attention to what we're being told by some of the people on here, we are young enough not to let this dominate and destroy the majority of our lives, we're young and make mistakes lets not take them into the future.