Hi Baxter. It truly is hard not to gamble I like Jonny123987 have lost 100’s of thousands of pounds and it is very very depressing indeed but the money has gone and we ant getting it back. We have just got to stop gambling for our own sanity. In the past I have let my gambling brain win over my normal brain and continued to let myself gamble in small ways even though I was trying to convince myself I wasn’t actually gambling. I would have a couple of goes on the lottery or play on Royal Games for 35p a go or some other small form gambling but I have come to realise that if you do those things you aren’t actually switching off the gambling part of your brain. This time I have stopped all forms of gambling. I haven’t gambled on anything at all for 44 days today and this approach seems to be working better than my previous attempts. Apparently we as gamblers have got to reprogram our brains as over time they have been programmed to think gambling is good but when it gets to the point where we are compulsive gamblers gambling is obviously bad but it can be reversed. ( I hope ) We have just got to take it one day at a time and keep busy in between and fight those horrible cravings.
