So I’m 43 days gamble free which has not come easily .. I signed up to gamstop which is brilliant because there’s been nights (including tonight) that I’ve sat there with the biggest urge to gamble and known I can’t because of gamstop. Things I’ve been extremely tight money wise lately and that would have usually resulted in me trying to get a win to make things easier which would inevitably turned into me being in a ten times worse situation..
thank goodness for Gamstop! .. 43 days and counting ..
I’m so like that...gambled for just that little bit more, how stupid.
stop digging, work out a plan, look where you can make savings and stick to it, you have a little bit to survive.Sorry but we got ourselves into this and can’t expect it to be easy to get out of it, patience and determination you need in buckets but the prize is a normal happy life.
choose well
Absolutely agree ... I signed up in July last year, not gambled since. I was an online slots player, and now I just can’t get access to the sites, so the pressure is off . It’s made such a difference to my life ... instead of being £5k more in debt, I have paid £5k off my debt. I sleep much more easily at night
Yeah GamStop is just what people like us need. I got my first loan to pay off gambling debts back in 2009, and am still paying it. The initial loan would have finished within a few years if I had stopped gambling. Instead I kept topping it up. Now I can't gamble, and I'm like a drug addict going cold turkey. This week has been especially hard as Barcelona and Liverpool won and I would have put £1000 on each of them and doubled my money. Gambling is so disgusting I'm fantasising about money I haven't even won. I hate it and hate myself for being addicted but we can only take life one day at a time.
I love reading successful stories like these!
keep taking 1 day at a time and we will succeed.
I absolutely agree. gamstop is really a god send. Initially I was a skeptic register to them, because they asked me for proof of address, picture with my passport... but it is worth it. If it was not for them I would probably continue gambling.
Wish I could say I’ve been gamble free for the amount of time on my profile but I fell back into bad habits over the last month. About a month ago I said to my husband about signing up to a bingo site (my husband doesn’t know about my problem gambling) .. I managed to win about £1050 which felt unbelievable .. we were spending like we were rich and loving it but as the amount went down then the wee gambling devil in me tried again to raise the money (knowing fine well where that road goes) however, by some form of crazy chance I won another £1400 and was on cloud nine! Fast forward to two nights ago where I cried and cried and cried whilst looking at my money and trying to work out where I can pull the £900 odd from that I spent from nothing. I’m on a trust deed from my gambling before so can’t take out any credit and if the trust deed asks for a statement at any point then I’m screwed. I’ve managed to figure out a way for it to work. Just. But it makes things extremely tight.
I sat the the other night thinking about how I have and have always had an amazing family who would do anything for me, including borrow/give money if it’s needed .. how I’m a good person with a job in a special school that I worked hard for .. how I’m not greedy and yet at this point I’m life I’m in a trust deed which means I can’t buy a house even though I see my sister buying and enjoying hers. I sat that night wishing there was a reset button to life because I feel I’ve truly messed up this go I had of it- and I’m not even 30 yet. I feel like a massive failure through all aspects and I try to look at the end of the trust deed in five years time etc etc but it’s hard.
I feel now now is the time I need to tell the husband but it’s so hard ..
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