No worries Mate you've had lot to deal with last few days hope you holding up well it's tough now but it will get better and thanks Ben yer feel quite good about not giving into temptation can't say it didn't cross my mind I thought oh what harm is just a few quid but then I thought no!!!
Thanks Steve yer I don't think people do take it serious when you tell them, thinks it's prob because I've said it that many times but sometimes actions speak louder than words.
the thought was always going to cross your mind mate...but we all know what a few quid ends up as dont we haha. then youre back to square 1. again well done, and catch up soon 🙂
Keep going rylex! Your doing great mate
Hello rylex
Keep ur chin up ur doing very well i live in my own social bubble to the amount of real friends i have can be counted on one hand
I like you come on here in the evenings as its the time of day the urges of self destruction roll my way im two weeks and two days in on a very hard road im actually only counting myself as two days as the first two weeks counted for nothing imo because i mainly got through them on anger and then holiday
Dont beat urself up whats been and gone is now the past and nobody can rewrite history so focus on what u have done already to get urself motivated to move forward there are plenty of nice people in here all in the same boat ur amongst friends walking the same thin line
If you start to feel low or get the urge get on the forum it helps reset the brain and focus on quitting rather throwing more money down the drain .
Good luck and keep posting
Well tomorrow starts the first day of week 2 for me and in just a week hard as it's been I'm so happy with the changes I'm seeing and feeling already, I know there's plenty more ups and downs to come but will take them as they come, starting to actually do things now I should of been doing more often, just been on my Facebook as Hardly use to go on it that much made me laugh really the S*#t some people put on there haha I use it a lot for my business more than anything but have to have it under my own name, It's like coming out of a cave when you stop gambling you notice things more you didn't really notice before that's how I feel anyway.
Well here's to a sweating night trying to sleep in this heat deffo not a heat person me!
"it's like coming out of a cave when you stop gambling"... great line... so true
I know some people bash Facebook, but it can be a great time killer. Catching up with people and seeing many friends/family enjoying life.
Gambling even if in a public place is a very reclusive, individual thing, it's just a person, in a little bubble with whatever gambling vice is currently making a fool of them.
Hi mate welcome to week 2! Your right you are going to have highs and lows but it will steady out my friend! It was a warm one last night!!
When a day can suddenly go from good to so so bad in the space of 5 mins, think I've found me trigger as to what makes me gamble coz right now I'm on the absolute edge of giving up
You ok mate?
Yer just a moment of madness after a bit s*#t I've just had, I've pulled myself back now Was close call but I never gave in thankfully!
not going to let myself down.
hi Buddy so what was the trigger tell us about it? Its important that you have identified this and you have pulled back. This shows such strong will power! Well done my friend!! Your going to have mad moments and urges mate it is normal!! Its about how you control this! did you set up therapy they will help with this.
It was an argument with other half over missing the call for the therapy (it's a long story) and call was off unknown so can't ring back will have to ring the place back that referred me to them, sometimes just don't think she understands how much of a big thing all this is for me it's hard constantly battling against habits your so use to fighting with your self in your own mind half of its telling you to just give in other half is telling you to keep it up feel like I'm 2 people sometimes arguing with my self and when I get stressed out it triggers the bad half and I think what I would normally do to escape it is just go off and wasted a load of money.
Took myself off on a drive chilled me self out and I'm ok now, this s*#t is hard tho I literally nearly just have up there and then, only for this I prob would off half an hour ago
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