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Hi darkenergy01,

If handing over financial control to someone else is not available, you may find it helpful to increase your accountability by giving someone else full visibility over your finances while you retain access to them.

You will need someone you have trust in for this such as a family member or close friend that you have also shared details of your gambling problem with, but geographic location should not really be an issue.

Some examples of ways in which you could do this. 1) Provide the trusted person with logon details for your online bank where they can regularly check to ensure no gambling transactions have taken place. 2) Send a bank statement periodically to the person 3) Open a shared vault in Revolut for your funds (you can give the other person funding only rights if you wish so they cannot withdraw), the other person will then get a notification anytime you withdraw from that vault.

As a complement to the above, you could also keep a shared budget sheet where you document all of your transactions and what any outgoing expenses have been for.

The above won’t prevent you from gambling, but adding as much accountability that you can may be added motivation to be gamble free.