Hi Webbe and welcome to the forum. Well done on looking for help.
If you have been reading the other stories here you already know some of the practical things you can be doing. Have you thought about installing blocking software to your computer so that you can’t gamble online?
It sounds like your parents would be delighted to help yopu with financial a*****ability. it is a big deterent to KNOW that if we gamble we WILL be found out.
One thing I don’t think you will be able to do is honestly say you are no longer addicted. There is no “cure” for addiction. What you will be able to do though is honestly say “I don’t gamble.”
It sounds like a time when words no longer *****. The actions that will help you stop gambling are the same actions that will give your parents cause to think “Hey, maybe he means it this time.”
I look forward to hearing what actions youa re taking. keep posting, you know you need help so maybe get to a Gamblers Anonymous meetign as well.
I would recommend showing this site to your parents as well. They would see that you are not alone with this problem, see that there is light at the end of the tunnel. They can also get support for themselves in the Friends and Family Forum and groups we have here.