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Please help me.
I started gambling many years ago in seaside arcades, you know the types 2p/10p fruit machines etc and i got hooked from a very early age probably around 13. As the years progressed I have swung from hardly gambling to gambling alot and loved the feel of the ride, Loved the highs of a Jackpot but even became addicted to the lows. You know the feel of feeling worthless but still cant help put that pound in a bandit. Like I have said I have had a lot of swings from good to bad with gambling and now like many times before I have reached my limit emotionally, physically and mentally and feel that this will never go away, its like a cancer that is eating away at my soul. my heart is good but I can’t look at myself in the mirror anymore and need help. I feel confident I can overcome it but then for no apparent reason, no trigger no nothing I will blow £100 on a fruit machine! Why? My name is Alan Thomas I live in Manchester I never steal for my fix but I am addicted someone please help before I fall into a chasm that I cannot climb out of, I look at my daughters eyes and feel so guilty but that does not seem to help me. Please help someone. please and find a way I have a chance of beating this I am ashamed of myself but that wont even stop me.
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I am going to be as active as I can possibly be from here on out.
I think it is awesome that you have gone one day without. I am not close to one full day (yet) but I’m going to get there. Then I’m going to keep going just like you. Lead me to consecutive days abstaining by doing it yourself.
We can both do this!
Thank you (ahead of time)!
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Dear MP34Life,
These people used the right words to describe what happen to me.
The worst thing that ever happen to me at the slot machine was winning some money, I ended up spending more money trying to replicate the feeling. ~ Slot-machine Addict.
Once you interact with these slot machines, the dynamic changes, and what you get out of these machine is not necessary the excitement and thrill of winning but the pleasure of being in this rhythmic zone. ~ Assistant Professor Natasha Schull
It was like a trance that came over me ~ Slot-machine Addict
When you are sitting in front of that machine, you are intoxicated. You have not taken a pill , you have not taken a drink, you have not put something into your vein, but that doesn’t mean your brain chemistry haven’t change. ~ Dr Robert Breen, Director, Gambling Treatment Progam, Rhode Island Hospital
In 2001, Doctor Hans Breiter and colleagues at Massachusetts General hospital conducted an experiment comparing the brain of a cocaine addict receiving a dose of cocaine and a healthy control subject playing the game of chance.
You look at the brain images after the activation of the primary reward system in the center of the human brain when they are a cocaine addict expecting a cocaine infusion vs a normal control subject expecting a monetary win, we saw the same thing, they are nearly identical, I could not distinguish who have receive cocaine and who have won a gambling task. ~ Doctor Hans Breiter, Director, Motivational and Emotional Neuroscience Center, Massachuset ts General hospital
The US national gambling impact study commission called these electronic gambling machines the crack cocaine of creating new addicted gamblers. ~ John Kindt , Professor, Business and Legal Policy, University of Illinios
The Gambling industry members talk about how to keep the people playing the machine longer, faster and more intensively and the way they speak about their aim is an aim of player extinction. Keeping the player there until their budget is thoroughly exhausted , until they have zero the player out. -
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I find the tally system of days helps me a lot. I started out like you. Around the same age on the same machines. I’m in Blackpool though, so imagine the options. I lost 19 grand of my savings on top of constantly losing my wages for years and years. Draw a line through it fella. Your money’s gone and you’re never getting it back. Just move forward with your life and your finances will take care of themselves. I’m on 1 year and 11 weeks today. Hopefully you can string some gamble free time together too. Good luck and stay strong.
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Keep telling yourself just for today I won’t gamble time will go quick im nearly on week 4 keep it up bud your doing great your not alone
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You are not alone! You have support here. You might want to put some barriers in place to make it harder to gamble. Keep posting!
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Hey Alan,
When your in the midst of addiction, the temptation to go play «just a bit» it sometimes undeniable. You’ll need some help and I highly recommend for you to self-exclude yourself from all venues where you normally gamble. If you do any online gambling you can install a betting blocker such as betfilter or gamblocker (both are great, and don’t mess with your computer or deny you access to anything else other than sports betting/casinos/poker/pokies sites – you can still visit gambling recovery forums don’t worry).
It’ll help you get through that initial period and after the weeks and months go by, things will get a lot easier. Without a doubt you’ll continue getting urges every now and then but you’ll learn more about yourself and your triggers and how to deal with them better over time, until YOU are the one in control and not the addiction.
Just remember that it’s a lifelong journey and the battle is never over, you might continuously actively fight the addiction until you can control it. You can overcome it but never get complacent because inside all of us is a compulsive gambler just waiting to burst out. Never give it a chance to come back.
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3 weeks is a great start. We all get those voices but the more times you can deny them, the less effect they will have on you.
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