The start please let me get over this !

Hey again, sorry to hear about your beloved Father & I guess that's proof there that you are gambling for escape!

You are not the only one on here with an addictive personality so you are among friends now...Welcome to recovery 🙂

You may hate gambling & everything it stands for now but come Friday, I can guarantee Mr Gamble will be whispering sweet nothings in your ear trying to lure you back in so get some passport sized photos done (you can do these on a colour printer) & get into those hell holes tomorrow whilst your Time-Money-Location triangle is broken & self exclude!

Recovery is hard & you are going to need as much support as you can get so please, find someone to confide in! This addiction thrives on secrecy & getting it out in the open will making fighting it that more manageable! I'm not sure what if any counselling you have had in the past & I am simply another addict in recovery so I really wouldn't know what you would need but first things first, why don't you pick up the phone to Gamcare in the morning & see what the experts suggest!

Time to fight for you & everyone that needs you - ODAAT

Well had £40 n went up road to get some bits n pieces well got no bits or pieces again in the sh@@ hole giving them money I haven't got I'm not gonna be able to do this I have no willpower

Thank you oddat for ur support will I ever do this ?

Susan, you can do this for sure, I am determined to beat this once and for all and will log onto this site regularly, not only is it the money but what a waste of time as well, both worrying about the losses and also the time spent gambling. You can do this.

Hi Susan,

I feel for you. Ive been battling this thing called gambling all my adult life and once more i feel like am back at square one.

However I have been through long periods of time gamble free and the sort of things that do work and as ODAAT has alluded to..is the following...

1. Comit to wanting to stop gambling. Write down all the consequnces of your gambling. I gurantee the negative will outweigh the positive. Use this list to motivate yourself.

2. The places you go to locally to gamble... do the exclusions, ask for 5 years, they will suggest 1. If your not allowed to gamble in these places you can't lose your money. Also blocking software for online eg betfilter.com

3. Access to money, if you haven't got it sitting in your purse, you can't gamble it. You know when your vulnerable, don't tempt fate.

4. Be honest with someone. Confide in someone. get some talking support.

5. Find other things to do to fill your time and escape from the stresses of life.

Self-esteem does recover when we start to do positive things.. and as our self-esteem improves the urge to self-detruct with gambling gets less.

My self-esteem has been in the toilet recently, but I know from experience that i can get better I can recover.. and so can you.

Start today. Today i will not gamble.

Take care... S.A

Well done it again self loathe really don't know where to turn it's all too much

Well iv told my best friend n she is going to take bank cards n help me sort myself out have rang gamecare so hopefully can start my road to success please be xxx good luck everyone