Entering recovery
I would love to hear from everyone as to what made or helped them to stop. What changed in life to finally say no to the dragon and stop drinking the poison ?
Not that I need to know why, I'm confused over my own experience. My brain was in such chaos that I'm not sure whether it was one thing or another or a bit of everything.
I know I'd had enough of the chaos but I didn't know which option of three that I wanted. Certainly recovery and stopping didn't look like an entertaining thought. There was an imminent intervention which I can't talk about on here, that was going to happen but I didn't think it would develop the way it has.Â
I woke up on 19th November last year and decided to stop. I had one last farewell to 44 years of gambling and told myself, one hour of slots and whatever the balance is stop. After 20 minutes I realised I felt sick of it and stopped. Withdrew balances on all my betting accounts, self excluded on as many as I could remember and then self excluded on Gamstop
Two days later I found Gamcare and then Gamban which were life savers then in February Evive. GA came the following week to stopping and between everything and a lot of work it's changed my life but back to the topic.
Does it take an intervention or being found out to stop ? Would love to hear your own experiencesÂ
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