Hello I used to post here a few years or so ago. I still get the odd email alert for a few threads I subscribed to back then. They were very very dark days, the support and help I got here probably saved my life! 2014 through to 2015 was truly the pits. And when my gambling was at epidemic proportions.
Well I want to say that there is HOPE! You can over come this dreadful addiction. I came through a very very dark tunnel one at times I really felt would claim my life and yet I am here.
I am blocked at every casino in the UK now, have not gambled in god knows how long. And while I will always be an addict, the thought of making a deposit feels alien to me.
It took me years to crush this, years to get my life back in order, and yet managed it somehow. I do not say this to gloat, or big myself up, I was truly a wretch of man! But I say it to give hope to those who are feeling despair that there is no way through. Honestly If I can do this, you can also!
I remember names here who pulled me back from the brink, they gave much I gave little. But I wont forget ever. I sometimes lurk here, reading the odd post and see the destruction gambling can do. But you do not and should not give up home.
I have 1000 and 1 “first day of no gambling” finally something clicked and I stopped and never went back. I have managed to clear most of my debt, have lived a frugal life to do this. Nothing saved for the future but I sleep at night these days.
I really wish each and everyone of you the best things in moving forwards with your lives. Dont give up giving up!
So take it from me one sorry looser …. there is hope out there … and a way through to a new life!
John aka Dino