my future happiness

The fact is you don’t want to stop.

Having looked through your diaries you’ve relapsed over 120 times since 2015.

Maybe it’s time to look at your situation a bit different. If you want to gamble which clearly you do why not set a budget for the month?

Say you spend 200 a month on gambling cut down one month to 150 and the next 100 and so on.

Slowly ween the need to gamble out of your life.

There’s not much else you can try if you’ve tried everything else

Good luck

Thanks for the posts it means a lot. I'm trying the gym and swimming option and training to do a 5k run. This will give me something to aspire to. Hi josh thanks for taking the time to read my diaries. Yds ive been on here two years and 120 relapses is a lot however I've been improving like u say to aim for. Ive pretty much got to the stage where practically any money I spend is on gambling and nothing else for the past six months I've spenf four hundred a month on holidays clothes drinks food and gambling. My aim, my target for 2018 is to get my spending down to 200 a month this will start January.

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Well I've just read my diary back and remembered the last five time in the past month I've been gambling on fruit machines. Each time ive lost over a hundred pounds. Almost done it again tonight stupidly went out with cash card and almost took out some money but the line has to be drawn somewhere and it was there and then. Ive no money in account so id of gone into overdraft 20 if lucky 100 if stupid and all for the sake of winning forty pounds if really lucky. So like advised I'm going to ween myself off it. I'm not going to say I wont gamble as that gets me nowhere. I'm going to say this month I will spend sixty pounds on gambling all poker not fruit machines or if fruit machines then that's part of the sixty pounds. One days wage for me a month. This month I have already gone way over so ill start next month. I am saying I need to change my strategy as for two years I've not been able to stop and I don't think that'll change

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Hi Adam, everybody on here is entitled to their opinion and I'm just going to offer you mine....

I think for as long as you keep that gambling window open, you will always fall into the trap of going 'too far' with your actions. I'm speaking purely from my own experience. I've tried to set budgets, deposit limits etc but it didn't work for me. I would always start off with the best intentions but inevitably I would slip back into my old ways. You need a clean break from gambling. It's the only way. You have to want the better life, Adam.

Good luck with whatever you choose. We are all here rooting for you.

Moorey

Hi, was at pub tonight and watched a mate lose twenty pounds on machine and thought id have a go, I was tempted and as soon as the opportunity was there and the bad idea popped into my head I was acting on it. Luckily the cash machine didn't work and the pub doesn't do cash back. I would definitely have been twenty pounds down. So I've learnt again what I have to do with these ideas, I have to wait ten minutes however difficult those ten minutes are and come back down to reality and not take out the money.

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Just wanted to Sa on this thread I'm just about sixty days without a gamble now horray

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