[holdy007]

Hi, 

 

Iv had a gambling problem for around 3 years now, only recently i have started to admit it. I’m in quite a bit of debt, not as much as some people but for me its very serious. I owe somebody money this week and i don’t have any money to pay them back.  I owe my best mate a couple hundred which he lent me to pay this other person back but once again i F**** up and blew the whole lot.  I promised him i wouldn’t gamble it all away but i did. In fact i spent the whole lot in just 3 days!! I feel terrible, sick to the bone.  I don’t want to tell him what i did, i just want money to pay everyone back and get my life back on track.

 

I left my full time job couple months ago because i was depressed and didn’t want to work there any longer. I kept gambling there blaming it on the place and the fact i wasn’t enjoying it anymore. At least there i had a steady income, now i don’t have that which makes gambling 100 times worse. 

 

I feel there is no getting away from it, my mates gamble but they are in control. They love a bet, i used to as well but now i chase the losses. I go to the pub for couple drinks and in one corner the TV in on with horse racing and couple folks having a bet. I look the other way and see couple fruit machines.  For the last couple months i have been blocked from most gambling sites and have put gamban on my phone and laptop which helped for ages. Being the stupid idiot i am, i disabled gamban and gambled on the 3 websites i can still access.

In 1 week i won £2,000, i went out and celebrated got drunk and went home and that night i gambled it all away. I kept saying to myself you have won some big money, leave it just leave it but it was so tempting to win more, i just kept loosing so i kept chasing and so on.

 

After chatting in one of the group chats last night, which really helped and opened my eyes once again. I thank the 2 people I was chatting to, appreciate the advice. Its nice to chat to people with the same issues as me. I have now self-excluded myself from the remaining 3 sites. 

Hope to chat to you all soon 

[konj1978]

Hello

Sorry to hear this. Ask yourself, what i really do to stop gambling?

I and many people here are in same situation and have same problems But soneone of us is working on it, someobe dont.

[charles]

Hi Holdy, well done on posting here.

I hope you cdan be honest wiht your mate – trying to keep things hidden can in itself send peole gambling. I would also ask him not to lend you money in the future.

Talk to your friends. it is up to you if/how much you tell them about your problem but it is important that you tell them you have decided to stop gambling. Don’t get inmto the gambling conversations – a few “I’m not interested”s usually does the trick. If they are reall friends then you will have other things you can talk about.

Maybe find another pub. When you do go to have a drink though just take enough money to cover your beers – that way any gambling will have an immediate consequence of not being able to have a drink. Get banned from your local bookies/whereever it is you usually gamble.

Use support – keep posting here, get to Gamblers Anonymous, talk to your Dr about counselling. Find the support that works for you.

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