why,why,why!!!!!!!

Since posting have decided on a plan.

As of today I have put blocks on PC

It was like I needed to see it written down to realise.

So Day 1

Am off to tidy the garden to distract myself.

Sorry to here about your problem lets face it if temptation is there u will prob do it like i have. put k9 on your pc and register it on someone else's email and let them put the password in then you will not be able to get on gambling sites from your pc.

Also if you don't own your own home and you owe loads you can go bankrupt. i was listening on the radio the other day and i think it cost 720 pound to do but then. you would have a clean slate.

i would do it but i own my own house so i will have to pay 15k back over a few years.

wishing you all the best

carl

Ty Carl

I, like you own my house albeit still mortgaged. So also have the issue of not wanting to go down the bankruptcy route

Day 2

Bit wobbly but trying some distraction therapy. Never have had much willpower!!!!

Day 3

Lapsed already as mobile doesnt support K9

Dont think can break the cycle, what an idiot, why has this consumed me. Feel stupid to let this take me over. I want me back, not a person thats sits up til 3am chasing losses, fretting about bills. Feel like I sit on the outside watching everyone else have a life. I have to convince myself I can and will best this, not it beat me.Need to look at face to face counselling I think.

WILL NOT GIVE UP TRYING THIS TIME

Hi

Have you tried self excluding yourself from the sites you use? My downfall is also the online gambling sites and I like you have gotten myself into a lot of debt because of it. This is the second time I have done this as the first time my oh sorted my finances out for me and then because I thought problem was solved didn't take any measures to take the temptation away and hence find myself back to square one. I have today self excluded myself from all the sites I used so I wouldn't even be able to go on my phone or anything to use them.

Wishing you all the best in your recovery, we're both just starting out this week and we will both hopefully have the willpower to do it this time, but for me taking the temptation away is a must this time.

Tee jay x

Come on you can do it... I can see alot of myself in some of the comments that you made. I feel that sitting on the outside watching my friends all having a normal lifestyle - something i would crave. Whilst i have no debts related to gambling i have read up about the bankrupt option (in a bit of a geek and always seem to be reading about stuff that doesn't concern me) but if you were determined to stop gambling all together then it would be a good way of wiping the slate clean - you can do it! Keep posting.

Ty Tee Jay,

maybe we can cyber support each other on here. Have tried twice before and failed and everytime I go back I seem to gamble more and more. Must feed a need somehow, but so would reading a book,

Ty Need help,

you are lucky to have no debts, but in order to go bankrupt due to gambling debts you have to abstain from betting for 6 months. So have a way to go til then. Plus you still have to pay a monthly fee of your spare wages after priority bills until outstanding debts paid. Would maybe lose my job if went bankrupt due to the nature of my job.

As said will continue to keep trying

Brutus

Sorry Brutus i clearly haven't read into in enough detail .. You have passed the first test by coming onto this site in the first place which shows that you want to quit... I am at the same stage as you because although i want quit i am finding it difficult to move past this stage... Come on we can do this!

Hi Brutus

Yes will be there to support one another, it's good to know your not alone in this. Keep trying - one day at a time.

Teejay x

Hi Tee Jay

Ty and ditto.

Got my haircut yesterday and came home, partner in a foul mood, girls wanting treats ( got their hairs cut too) no money, felt like a failure, first thought was hide away and gamble. Think this is my trigger, stress and anxiety!!!! along with the inevitable chasing losses.BTW get our hair done for a tenner each.

MUST KEEP TRYING

Need some strategies for dealing with my stress/anxiety. Gonna do some research plus trying to persuade my eldest to come running as need something will be a good distraction and help me to sleep hopefully!!!!

Footnote did deposit 10 won 211 then lost that arghhhhhhhhh what an idiot hey.

Whoever says "its only money" sucks

Hi Brutus

Welcome aboard and very well done for realising you have a problem

You are not alone we are all in here to abstain from gambling

You say you deposited that evil tenner and won 211 and lost it all well I say again welcome aboard

We cannot win because we cannot stop,

so what is the point of placing that first tenner

We play because we are addicted to playing

Even if we win and withdraw nine times out of ten we reverse it all by the end of the day

Gambling leads to much more stress it does not take the stress away

Best wishes Suzanne x

Hi Suzanne,

Ty for comment, too true about it causing stress , but stress leads me there too. I often sign on and think if I win a biggy I can feel better ha bl**dy ha. I now realise I will feel better if I have 's in the bank and can sleep at night.I realise in my everyday " normal " parts of life how ridiculous it is, but as with any addict the game pulls me back, with me I am always chasing losses. If I get ahead withdraw and see it in my bank, I then think well I could double it and so the cycle goes on. Am sure that is everyones pull, needless to say I have only just left the dock on this mamouth journey and have fallen in twice already.

I WILL NOT GIVE UP TRYING

Hi Brutus

Just wanted to wish you a gamble free day. Keep trying, and stay strong.

Tee jay x