My Recovery Diary (last bet 22/04/06 )

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the message. I do remember that you'd given up for three years previously and, like you, I also "reoffended". I am now starting that long journey from the beginning again and like any compulsive gambler, I am impatient! I want to be a year gamble free by the end of next week - lol! However, as you have shown ( and your story really is a shining example Jim and Jac) - this disease can only be tackled through hard work and constant vigilance. That you're both still on here - posting your updates and helping others to recover is a real inspiration. It does help me to feel more confident about future success for me and many others.

Thanks Jim & Jac

All the best

Hatch

Just wanted to thankyou Jim for your post on my diary. Hope you and Jackie are well, am sincerely sorry for my depressing posts on jac's diary and hope i have not offended or depressed either of you!

Must say, you two are great, make me sob..hope you have good weekend, know it will be gamble free. ands

love reading your posts!!! sooo inspiring......

I have not had too much to say these past few weeks, I guess I have just been getting on with my life, a life that doesn't involve gambling and all the cr** that it brings.

I am still 100% committed to not gambling, that means no fooling myself that the odd bet wont hurt, cause I know that it will.

At the very least having the odd bet convinces us that we can control our gambling again.

If we have the odd bet and then dont bet again for days, weeks, months whatever, it makes it so much easier to have the next bet and then the next until eventually we are back into gambling like lunatics.

I know cause I have been there and I ain't going back.

The only way to beat this addiction is to stop feeding it and it ain't going to get one single morsel from me again, not even a lottery ticket, a raffle ticket or even a game of pool for a pint.

I will never give this addiction the chance to have a hold on me again.

Jim (last bet 22/04/06)

Hi Jim,

Great news that you are still going well and gamble-free. Keep up the good work.

Stay Strong

Steve

Hi Gull,

I like your straight talking style. I am a Cg who can go for long periods of time without a bet of any kind.. but eventually I start to wonder that.. maybe.. possibly.. perhaps.. just a pound.. but like you say we all know where it ends up eventually.

I cannot gamble.. its just the way it is.. one day at a time. Well done on your continued recovery.. S.A

Jim,

Thanks for your support on my diary. Great to hear you doing well. I see you spotted that I plagarised one of your posts 🙂 I did say it was taken from another diary... you should get one of those copyright symbols and post it in future 🙂

Same as many of the good people I meet in GA, and myself, you are dealing with your own recovery, selfishly as you say. It's kinda nice when someone gets benefit from someone elses diary though.

Not putting any pressure on you but you know that you can never bet again coz almost every diary keeper within this site would hunt you down in Torquay and give you a kick in the ar@se for ruining our idea of a target. Again, I know this is not your intention (to be a goal setter).

Onwards and upwards indeed and keep the eye on the ball.

Send my regards to your wife. I hope she is doing OK.

Brian

raffles lotteries pool for pint,im trying to do same as you mate,must admit found avoiding fantasy football this year a bit difficult (fun with workmates but still stakes involved) but ive managed 😉 P.s are you not dizzy reaching them dizzy heights of top of league,will it last ??? they finished last season strong enough so why not...hope jac s feeling a bit better..best wishes we can do this 🙂

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your post on my diary.

I think I will resist turning into a Torquay fan, thanks anyway lol. I remember fondly one Saturday afternoon many moons ago, when your lot came to the then Belle Vue to play us and Helen Chamberlain was giving out ** *** t-shirts to the crowd and I got a kiss on the cheek. My day was made with that. Got to say that your fans have always been good when they visit our place. Best of luck this year.

Stay Strong

Steve

Jim

Read your last post and love the fact that you're still as resolute as ever to overcome this habit - even after 4 years - by not giving it the slightest sniff of a weakness. All power to you mate. Having been through the same process myself - I know you're right - I started off betting again with very small stakes, very infrequently and conned myself that I was now in control.

Like you say - I was soon betting like a lunatic again and doing more damage than before - having taken years to get myself "straight" financially.

I ain't making that mistake again - and so 0 like you, it ain't getting another penny off me in any shape or form.

Good on ya Jim

All the best

Hatch

I have not had too much to say recently, too busy with life in general, but I am still reading posts on here, still not gambling and still enjoying life as is was meant to be..as a non gambler.

All the best to you all

Jim (last bet 22/04/06)

Hey Jim

Good to know you still catch up on things. Glad you are doing ok.

Love and Hugs to you and Jac

God Bless

Sabine xx

good to read your update jim...ive said diaries like yours should be on the front pages as a NEW FORUM TOPIC so newbies can read that this CAN be done...all they said was to keep "bumping" diaries like yours up to the front page...you must have seen many successful stories over the years that are still bet free but are miles down the pages...send my best wishes to jac as well 😉

Hey Jim

Just found Jac's diary and thought I better find yours too.

I know you still check in every now and then and read on here. Hope you and Jac are ok.

E-mail me if there is anything I can do. I'm only a couple of hours drive away and that's nothing amongst friends. Same goes for you. If you two fancy a change, come and see me and stay with us and explore the South Coast. I miss you guys.

Lots of Love

God Bless

Sabine xxxx

Hi Jim

Thanks for posting on my diary kid.

As for me supporting a better team than Man city.People will look at the time of your post and realise it was just before our 5-0 drubbing of Sunderland lol.

What about Torquay Jim .Automatic promotion or play offs?

Great to see you still posting and offering advice after all these years.

All the best Jeff.

Good Morning Jim. Happy 5th Birthday. Congratulations on your wonderful achievement of not gambling for 5 years. I am sending massive Hugs and lots and lots of love. I would have loved to have spent today with you and Jac. You 2 are special and I thank God for letting me walk alongside your path. Love you lots. God Bless. Sabine. xx