I have been so tired of late, no doubt due to last weekend when I spent almost all of my hard earned salary in under two hours, in the dark of the night,🙈. That horrible gut wrenching feeling of sheer disbelief and for a moment, asking myself, “am I dreaming this”?! The reality soon set in and the realisation of not being able to pay my monthly bills/feed myself. Why on earth would I do this, when I am so sensible and money savvy for 99.99% of the time!🤷🏻♀️. Thankfully, my sister bailed me out (of which, I will, over time, be paying her back). I don’t even like using the word “thankfully”, as this should NOT be happening! This WILL NOT be happening again. Rest assured. “April fools - no more the fool”! 🍎
Have you put things in place to possibly stop this happening again?
All the best 👍🏻
Hello Pink Lady.
Sorry to hear if your loss during the night. I too used to get up during the night and do financisl damage.
Sign up to gamstop for 5 years. You need blocks in place to prevent this happening again. I wish you well in your recovery.
Toad🐸
@brownie889 Thank you for your response. Yes. I have suspended my betting accounts/put a block on them.
@gambling_toad . Thank you toad. I have suspended/put a block on all my betting accounts. On another note, I have been asking lots of people how to load a picture on my profile and wondered how you managed to load yours? I have tried several times to upload a picture under my account in my profile. I manage to do this and then upload. I then receive a message saying “upload successful” then nothing happens??? I am confused. I have asked other in the chat about this and they have said the same so just wondered how you managed to upload your pic. 😊.
Take care.
Pink Lady. 🍎.
Hello Pink Lady.
If you go to top right of screen there is an icon a face in a circle. Select this then edit profile allows you to add a picture. Well sone for putting blocks in place I know it's not easy.
Regards.
Toad🐸🐸🐸
Hi
I found that I use to question why did I keep giving my hard earned money away.
Once I walked in to the recovery program I got to understand that my gambling was a form of emotional escape.
My gambling was a form of adrenaline rush, and I use to think I could get some thing for nothing.
Like many people in to the recovery program I was abale to abstain from my unhealthyh abit of gambling.
I found that my emotional triggers were my pains I had not healed, my emotional triggers were my unhealthy fears that I could not face or reduce, my emotional triggers were my frustrations due to my unreasonable expectations of people life and situations.
My emotional triggers were my feelings of boredom and my feelings of loneliness.
I found that I could only heal my pains once I was stop causing my self due to my addictions and obsessions.
I like many people did not stop gambling right away.
Each time I went back to gambling I got to understand why I did so.
I handed over all of my finances to my wife and in time I could trust my self with money.
Some people might think that it is easy to abstain from my gambling, for me not so it was hard.
In time I got to understand that I had lots of fears and in time those fears would be reduced.
Spending time and effort in to my recovery was very wroth while.
Gambling for me it a complete waste of time.
Gambling for me it was a form of self abuse and self inflicted pains.
Love healing and peace to every one.
Dave L
AKA Dave of Beckenham
@gambling_toad Yes, like I said, I have tried this several times. I then get a message saying "upload completed" but my picture does not upload???? No one can seem to get to the bottom of why either!
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