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I am a university student in Australia, and I seemed to have my whole life ahead of me. I have a longing girlfriend and I am pursuing a course which I enjoy.
However, I am very much a thrill-seeker. I enjoyed playing poker since secondary school (back when I was 14) and I started playing small with my friends in school. I actually got suspended in High School because I was caught gambling in class.
Since entering university and moving away from home, I experienced freedom which I’ve never had before. The easy access of online poker and gambling websites, coupled with my weak mentality, resulted in my losing a couple of thousands of dollars over the past year. While compared to many others on this forum this may seem like a small sum, this is not the case for me as I am still a student without any income yet. Today, I gambled with the money I put aside for my university fees. After the session, I realised what a degenerate I’m becoming and I vowed to abstain from gambling from now on.
Today is day 1.
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Hello City Eagle and thanks for starting a thread in the Gambling Therapy forums
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Day one is a rough day.
I wish you the best in your struggle.
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Hello cityeagle, welcome to the forum and well done on looking for help.
As you hae been reading the other stories here you will have seen many similar to your own. You will also have seen teh success stories – what are they doing that you can apply to your own situation?
Their is a lot of gambling in Autralia – the good news is that there is also a lot of support available to you as well. here, places like Gamblers Anonymous and more. Your University no doubt has a “Student Services” of some sort which will likely be able to provide counselling/mentoring and sign post you to other support as well.
What barriers can you put in place? You family and/or girlfriend could help with those.
Keep posting and let us know the positive steps that you are taking.
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