I didn’t see your reply til this morning, I’ve been out since 04.30 and just back.
Anxiety I know is an awful thing, but cant really advise you on anything handy to help with it. I’m sure though its just like a bad withdrawal symptom of the gambling, GM will help you to make a lot of realisations about your whole life and not just the gambling. You’ve gambled a long time and at the moment “not gambling” is relatively new to you, you’re bound to feel anxious with this big change in lifestyle. However I found that once “not gambling” started to be the new normal for me things like anxiety and depression slowly disappeared.
I know one thing though coffee and high dollops of caffeine in things like coke and red bull don’t do you any good if you suffer with anxiety. If you drink lots of tea and coffee through the day try and get de-caf that certainly makes a difference. Horlicks also helps me to unwind, but that could just be because I’m getting old.
With regards to what goes on at GM, things are different now to how it was when I was there so it wouldn’t be right for me to tell you how it was in my day, but maybe Harry on the live helpline would be able to help you a bit more. Nothing sinister though, I know it helped me leaps and bounds and without any shadow of a doubt if I hadn’t of gone there I’d either be inside, sectioned off, or dead by now.
Hope you get a place there shortly, take care.
Geordie.