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
Hi Stuart i think my situation was very common i realised i had a problem back in 2010 when i first went to Ga however i need put enough focus on my recovery i use to believe it was more to do with my actual gambling and i believed  it was purely my luck i manage to improve and became more of a Binge gamblier the most i did was 2 Ga meetings and i went to open meetings which covered all addictions as my addictions goes i started putting emphasis on leaving card at home ony bringing certain about and any winnings i would spend it as i realised i would never be able to keep the problem was i would end up selling the stuff back at a loss and would start putting emphasis on recovery and things would improve then somehow i would have an urgue few months down the line either or a meeting someone boosting about winnings and that would be a trigger to repeat the proccess again i didnt borrow money for gambling it was a case to survive till pay day the issue i had i will suffer for a short period of time things will look bright and i would fall off the bandwaggon later down the line what changed was simply going into debt my last relapse was devastating i did something i didnt think i was capable off i knew that day i had to change unlike the previous relapses i made my decision on that day i simply do not want to go on that path again  and here i am 3+ years later usually when this happened in past i would get angry and frustrated i was actually in shock and that was it
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